On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:06 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Ildar Musin wrote:
>
>> autovac_get_workitem_name() declaration seems redundant and should be
>> removed. The same thing with including "utils/lsyscache.h" in brin.c.
>>
>> The 'requested' variable in brininsert() I would again rename to something
>> like 'success' because a work item is requested anyway but what matters is
>> whether the request was satisfied/successful.
>
> Thanks, I pushed this. I agree with your comments; so I changed
> 'requested' to 'recorded' and removed those lines.
Thank you!
>I also reworded the
> log message:
>
> ereport(LOG,
> (errcode(ERRCODE_PROGRAM_LIMIT_EXCEEDED),
> errmsg("request for BRIN range summarization for
> index \"%s\" page %u was not recorded",
> RelationGetRelationName(idxRel),
> lastPageRange)));
>
> And added a paragraph to the docs explaining this situation.
>
> Now I'm wondering what will we tell users to do if they get this message
> too frequently. Neither of the obvious options (1. changing the index's
> pages_per_range to a larger value; 2. making autovacuum more frequent
> somehow) seem terribly useful.
Or telling users to call brin_summarize_range() manually?
Regards,
--
Masahiko Sawada
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center
