Re: show "aggressive" or not in autovacuum logs

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
<horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> Hello, it would be too late but I'd like to propose this because
> this cannot be back-patched.
>
>
> In autovacuum logs, "%u skipped frozen" shows the number of pages
> skipped by ALL_FROZEN only in aggressive vacuum.
>
> So users cannot tell whether '0 skipped-frozen' means a
> non-agressive vacuum or no frozen-pages in an agressive vacuum.
>
> I think it is nice to have an indication whether the scan was
> "agressive" or not in log output.

Good idea. I also was thinking about this.

> Like this,
>
>> LOG:  automatic aggressive vacuum of table "template1.pg_catalog.pg_statistic": index scans: 0
>
> "0 skipped frozen" is uesless in non-aggressive vacuum but
> removing it would be too-much.  Inserting "aggressive" reduces
> machine-readability so it might be better in another place. The
> attached patch does the following.
>
>>  LOG:  automatic vacuum of table "postgres.public.pgbench_branches": mode: normal, index scans: 0
>>  LOG:  automatic vacuum of table "postgres.public.pgbench_branches": mode: aggressive, index scans: 0
>

Should we add this even to the manual vacuum verbose message?

Regards,

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