On 10/29/21, 3:54 AM, "Greg Nancarrow" <gregn4...@gmail.com> wrote: > When recently debugging a vacuum-related issue, I noticed that there > is some log-report processing/formatting code at the end of > lazy_scan_heap() that, unless the vacuum VERBOSE option is specified, > typically results in no log output (as the log-level is then DEBUG2). > I think it is worth skipping this code if ultimately nothing is going > to be logged (and I found that even for a tiny database, a VACUUM may > execute this code hundreds of times). > I have attached a simple patch for this.
I think this logging only happens once per table, so I'm not sure it's really worth it to short-circuit here. If it was per-page, IMO there would be a much stronger case for it. That being said, I don't think the proposed patch would hurt anything. Nathan