Re: Add mode column to pg_stat_progress_vacuum - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakrejda@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 21:10 Shinya Kato <shinya11.kato@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM Masahiko Sawada
>> <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> > > Fixed, but I have a comment. I noticed
>> minor wording inconsistencies,
>> > > e.g., 'started' vs. 'initiated' and 'due to' vs. 'because of'. Should
>> > > I unify these terms?
>> >
>> > +1
>>
>> It seems the inconsistency between 'started' and 'initiated' has not
>> been resolved. Come to think of it, since the column name is
>> triggerd_by, I think it would be best to standardize on 'triggered'. I
>> have attached a patch to fix this.
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> I'm late to the discussion, but have you considered just "trigger" for the column name? It's shorter and just as
clear.

Thanks for the suggestion. I’d prefer to keep the column name
“triggered_by”: “trigger” is widely used to mean the trigger object in
PostgreSQL and can be ambiguous here, whereas “triggered_by” clearly
conveys that this field shows what initiated the VACUUM.


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Best regards,
Shinya Kato
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