Make vacuum buffer counters 64 bits wide
authorAlvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Wed, 5 Feb 2020 19:59:29 +0000 (16:59 -0300)
committerAlvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Wed, 5 Feb 2020 19:59:29 +0000 (16:59 -0300)
commit15d13e82911f7cc9f04f0bf419a96fd827fd1a9d
tree9cec1be6ea28c42c5b94cc5bcba58d993077f64e
parent75cdf24ec3f812b2c52e0f47286665f9c8ced24b
Make vacuum buffer counters 64 bits wide

Using 32 bit counters means they can now realistically wrap around when
vacuuming extremely large tables.  Because they're signed integers,
stats printed by vacuum look very odd when they do.

We'd love to backpatch this, but refrain because the variables are
exported and could cause third-party code to break.

Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200131205926[email protected]
src/backend/access/heap/vacuumlazy.c
src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
src/include/miscadmin.h