Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 12:09:21PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
>> I would not mind having a separate function returning 6 rows, if we really
>> want that, but making pg_buffercache_summary() return 6 rows would imo make it
>> less useful for getting a quick overview. At least I am not that quick summing
>> up multple rows, just to get a quick overview over the number of dirty rows.
> This is what v1-0001 does. We could probably make pg_buffercache_summary a
> view on pg_buffercache_usage_counts, too, but that doesn't strike me as
> tremendously important.
Having two functions doesn't seem unreasonable to me either.
Robert spoke against it to start with, does he still want to
advocate for that?
regards, tom lane
