On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 7:22 PM Matthias van de Meent
<boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Besides, I thought that you wanted me to use some new field in
> > BTScanOpaque? But now you want me to use a global counter. Which is
> > it?
>
> If you think it's important to have this info on all indexes then I'd
> prefer the pgstat approach over adding a field in IndexScanDescData.
> If instead you think that this is primarily important to expose for
> nbtree index scans, then I'd prefer putting it in the BTSO using e.g.
> the index AM analyze hook approach, as I think that's much more
> elegant than this.
I agree with this analysis. I don't see why IndexScanDesc would ever
be the right place for this.
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