Updated on 2025-07-22 GMT+08:00

PGXC_GROUP

PGXC_GROUP records node group information. In storage-compute decoupling 3.0 version, each node group in a logical cluster is called a Virtual Warehouse (VW). At the storage KV layer, each VW corresponds to a vgroup.

Table 1 PGXC_GROUP columns

Column

Type

Description

group_name

Name

Node group name

in_redistribution

Char

Whether redistribution is required

  • n indicates that the NodeGroup is not redistributed.
  • y indicates the source NodeGroup in redistribution.
  • t indicates the destination NodeGroup in redistribution.
  • s indicates that the NodeGroup will skip redistribution.

group_members

oidvector_extend

Node OID list of the node group

group_buckets

Text

Distributed data bucket group

is_installation

boolean

Whether to install a sub-cluster

group_acl

aclitem[]

Access permissions

group_kind

Char

Node group type.

  • i indicates the installation node group, which contains all DNs.
  • n indicates a common non-logical cluster node group.
  • v indicates a logical cluster node group.
  • e indicates the elastic cluster node group.
  • r indicates a replication table node group, which can only be used to create replication tables and can contain one or more logical cluster node groups.

group_ckpt_csn

Xid

CSN of the last incremental extraction performed on a node group

vgroup_id

Xid

ID of the vgroup corresponding to the node group

vgroup_bucket_count

OID

Number of buckets in the vgroup corresponding to the node group

group_ckpt_time

Timestamp with time zone

Physical time when the last incremental extraction is performed on a node group

apply_kv_duration

Integer

Duration of incremental scanning in the last incremental extraction of a node group, in seconds

ckpt_duration

Integer

Checkpoint duration in the last incremental extraction of a node group, in seconds