Re: pgBufferUsage.blk_{read|write}_time are zero although there are pgBufferUsage.local_blks_{read|written}

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 10:45:05AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 04:58:20PM +0300, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
> > I think switching it to 'shared' makes sense. That shouldn't confuse
> > existing monitoring queries much as the numbers won't change, right?
> > Also, if we keep 'shared/local' there could be similar complaints to
> > this thread in the future; so, at least adding comments can be
> > helpful.
>
> The problem is that it may impact existing tools that do explain
> output deparsing.  One of them is https://explain.depesz.com/ that
> Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski has implemented, and it would be sad to
> break anything related to it.
>
> I am adding Hubert in CC for comments about changing this
> "shared/local" to "shared" on a released branch.  Knowing that
> "shared" and "local" will need to be handled as separate terms in 17~
> anyway, perhaps that's not a big deal, but let's be sure.

Hi,
some things will definitely break, but that's 100% OK. The change seems
needed, and I can update my parser to deal with it :)

Best regards,

depesz