Hi, On 2022-11-28 12:58:48 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 3:53 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > I think we should consider deprecating the pg_stat_bgwriter columns but > > leaving them in place for a few years. New stuff should only be added to > > pg_stat_checkpointer, but we don't need to break old monitoring queries. > > I vote to just remove them. I think that most people won't update > their queries until they are forced to do so.
Seems most agree with that... WFM. But: > I don't think it matters very much when we force them to do that. I don't think that's true. If we remove the columns when the last version without pg_stat_checkpointer has gone out of support, users don't need to have version switches in their monitoring setups. Greetings, Andres Freund