v8-0003-Introduce-a-new-view-for-checkpointer-related-sta.patch

application/x-patch

Filename: v8-0003-Introduce-a-new-view-for-checkpointer-related-sta.patch
Type: application/x-patch
Part: 2
Message: Re: Introduce a new view for checkpointer related stats

Patch

Format: format-patch
Series: patch v8-0003
Subject: Introduce a new view for checkpointer related stats
File+
doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml 75 23
src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql 9 5
src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_checkpointer.c 1 0
src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c 10 9
src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat 13 9
src/include/pgstat.h 1 0
src/test/recovery/t/029_stats_restart.pl 3 3
src/test/regress/expected/rules.out 7 6
src/test/regress/expected/stats.out 18 3
src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql 9 3
From 5b349d6b3a3b8db1498e038aed81909fd1f15fe4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 05:05:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH v8] Introduce a new view for checkpointer related stats

pg_stat_bgwriter view currently reports checkpointer stats as well.
It is that way because historically checkpointer was part of
bgwriter until the commits 806a2ae and bf405ba, that went into
PG 9.2, separated them out.

It is time for us to separate checkpointer stats to its own view
called pg_stat_checkpointer.

Bump catalog version.
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml                  | 98 ++++++++++++++-----
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql          | 14 ++-
 .../utils/activity/pgstat_checkpointer.c      |  1 +
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c           | 19 ++--
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat               | 22 +++--
 src/include/pgstat.h                          |  1 +
 src/test/recovery/t/029_stats_restart.pl      |  6 +-
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out           | 13 +--
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out           | 21 +++-
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql                | 12 ++-
 10 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 098ca5999d..47bf6ff247 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -451,6 +451,15 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
      </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry><structname>pg_stat_checkpointer</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_checkpointer</primary></indexterm></entry>
+      <entry>One row only, showing statistics about the
+       checkpointer process's activity. See
+       <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-checkpointer-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_checkpointer</structname></link> for details.
+     </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_database</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_database</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per database, showing database-wide statistics. See
@@ -3974,7 +3983,7 @@ SELECT pid, wait_event_type, wait_event FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE wait_event i
 
   <para>
    The <structname>pg_stat_bgwriter</structname> view will always have a
-   single row, containing global data for the cluster.
+   single row, containing data about the bgwriter of the cluster.
   </para>
 
   <table id="pg-stat-bgwriter-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_bgwriter">
@@ -3994,77 +4003,118 @@ SELECT pid, wait_event_type, wait_event FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE wait_event i
     <tbody>
      <row>
       <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
-       <structfield>checkpoints_timed</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+       <structfield>buffers_clean</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
       </para>
       <para>
-       Number of scheduled checkpoints that have been performed
+       Number of buffers written by the background writer
       </para></entry>
      </row>
 
      <row>
       <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
-       <structfield>checkpoints_req</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+       <structfield>maxwritten_clean</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
       </para>
       <para>
-       Number of requested checkpoints that have been performed
+       Number of times the background writer stopped a cleaning
+       scan because it had written too many buffers
       </para></entry>
      </row>
 
      <row>
       <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
-       <structfield>checkpoint_write_time</structfield> <type>double precision</type>
+       <structfield>buffers_alloc</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
       </para>
       <para>
-       Total amount of time that has been spent in the portion of
-       checkpoint processing where files are written to disk, in milliseconds
+       Number of buffers allocated
       </para></entry>
      </row>
 
      <row>
       <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
-       <structfield>checkpoint_sync_time</structfield> <type>double precision</type>
+       <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
       </para>
       <para>
-       Total amount of time that has been spent in the portion of
-       checkpoint processing where files are synchronized to disk, in
-       milliseconds
+       Time at which these statistics were last reset
       </para></entry>
      </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+ </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-checkpointer-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_checkpointer</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_checkpointer</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_checkpointer</structname> view will always have a
+   single row, containing data about the checkpointer process of the cluster.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-checkpointer-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_checkpointer">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_checkpointer</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
      <row>
       <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
-       <structfield>buffers_checkpoint</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+       Column Type
       </para>
       <para>
-       Number of buffers written during checkpoints
+       Description
       </para></entry>
      </row>
+    </thead>
 
+    <tbody>
      <row>
       <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
-       <structfield>buffers_clean</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+       <structfield>timed_checkpoints</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
       </para>
       <para>
-       Number of buffers written by the background writer
+       Number of scheduled checkpoints that have been performed
       </para></entry>
      </row>
 
      <row>
       <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
-       <structfield>maxwritten_clean</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+       <structfield>requested_checkpoints</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
       </para>
       <para>
-       Number of times the background writer stopped a cleaning
-       scan because it had written too many buffers
+       Number of requested checkpoints that have been performed
       </para></entry>
      </row>
 
      <row>
       <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
-       <structfield>buffers_alloc</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+       <structfield>checkpoint_write_time</structfield> <type>double precision</type>
       </para>
       <para>
-       Number of buffers allocated
+       Total amount of time that has been spent in the portion of
+       checkpoint processing where files are written to disk, in milliseconds
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>checkpoint_sync_time</structfield> <type>double precision</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Total amount of time that has been spent in the portion of
+       checkpoint processing where files are synchronized to disk, in
+       milliseconds
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>buffers_written_checkpoints</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Number of buffers written during checkpoints
       </para></entry>
      </row>
 
@@ -5714,8 +5764,10 @@ SELECT pid, wait_event_type, wait_event FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE wait_event i
         Resets some cluster-wide statistics counters to zero, depending on the
         argument.  The argument can be <literal>bgwriter</literal> to reset
         all the counters shown in
-        the <structname>pg_stat_bgwriter</structname>
-        view, <literal>archiver</literal> to reset all the counters shown in
+        the <structname>pg_stat_bgwriter</structname> view,
+        <literal>checkpointer</literal> to reset all the counters shown in
+        the <structname>pg_stat_checkpointer</structname> view,
+        <literal>archiver</literal> to reset all the counters shown in
         the <structname>pg_stat_archiver</structname> view,
         <literal>io</literal> to reset all the counters shown in the
         <structname>pg_stat_io</structname> view,
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 2b8e462532..ad2992fd25 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -1105,16 +1105,20 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_archiver AS
 
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_bgwriter AS
     SELECT
-        pg_stat_get_bgwriter_timed_checkpoints() AS checkpoints_timed,
-        pg_stat_get_bgwriter_requested_checkpoints() AS checkpoints_req,
-        pg_stat_get_checkpoint_write_time() AS checkpoint_write_time,
-        pg_stat_get_checkpoint_sync_time() AS checkpoint_sync_time,
-        pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_checkpoints() AS buffers_checkpoint,
         pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
         pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
         pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
         pg_stat_get_bgwriter_stat_reset_time() AS stats_reset;
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_checkpointer AS
+    SELECT
+        pg_stat_get_timed_checkpoints() AS timed_checkpoints,
+        pg_stat_get_requested_checkpoints() AS requested_checkpoints,
+        pg_stat_get_checkpoint_write_time() AS checkpoint_write_time,
+        pg_stat_get_checkpoint_sync_time() AS checkpoint_sync_time,
+        pg_stat_get_buf_written_checkpoints() AS buffers_written_checkpoints,
+        pg_stat_get_checkpointer_stat_reset_time() AS stats_reset;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_io AS
 SELECT
        b.backend_type,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_checkpointer.c b/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_checkpointer.c
index 03ed5dddda..aa0b7d2c06 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_checkpointer.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_checkpointer.c
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ pgstat_checkpointer_reset_all_cb(TimestampTz ts)
 									&stats_shmem->stats,
 									sizeof(stats_shmem->stats),
 									&stats_shmem->changecount);
+	stats_shmem->stats.stat_reset_timestamp = ts;
 	LWLockRelease(&stats_shmem->lock);
 }
 
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 087ba87a86..f2395fc13c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -1176,19 +1176,19 @@ PG_STAT_GET_DBENTRY_FLOAT8(idle_in_transaction_time)
 PG_STAT_GET_DBENTRY_FLOAT8(session_time)
 
 Datum
-pg_stat_get_bgwriter_timed_checkpoints(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+pg_stat_get_timed_checkpoints(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 {
 	PG_RETURN_INT64(pgstat_fetch_stat_checkpointer()->timed_checkpoints);
 }
 
 Datum
-pg_stat_get_bgwriter_requested_checkpoints(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+pg_stat_get_requested_checkpoints(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 {
 	PG_RETURN_INT64(pgstat_fetch_stat_checkpointer()->requested_checkpoints);
 }
 
 Datum
-pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_checkpoints(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+pg_stat_get_buf_written_checkpoints(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 {
 	PG_RETURN_INT64(pgstat_fetch_stat_checkpointer()->buf_written_checkpoints);
 }
@@ -1221,6 +1221,12 @@ pg_stat_get_checkpoint_sync_time(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 					 pgstat_fetch_stat_checkpointer()->checkpoint_sync_time);
 }
 
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_checkpointer_stat_reset_time(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+	PG_RETURN_TIMESTAMPTZ(pgstat_fetch_stat_checkpointer()->stat_reset_timestamp);
+}
+
 Datum
 pg_stat_get_bgwriter_stat_reset_time(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 {
@@ -1730,14 +1736,9 @@ pg_stat_reset_shared(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	if (strcmp(target, "archiver") == 0)
 		pgstat_reset_of_kind(PGSTAT_KIND_ARCHIVER);
 	else if (strcmp(target, "bgwriter") == 0)
-	{
-		/*
-		 * Historically checkpointer was part of bgwriter, continue to reset
-		 * both for now.
-		 */
 		pgstat_reset_of_kind(PGSTAT_KIND_BGWRITER);
+	else if (strcmp(target, "checkpointer") == 0)
 		pgstat_reset_of_kind(PGSTAT_KIND_CHECKPOINTER);
-	}
 	else if (strcmp(target, "io") == 0)
 		pgstat_reset_of_kind(PGSTAT_KIND_IO);
 	else if (strcmp(target, "recovery_prefetch") == 0)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 5ed66af0e3..7030597d67 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5666,20 +5666,24 @@
   proargnames => '{archived_count,last_archived_wal,last_archived_time,failed_count,last_failed_wal,last_failed_time,stats_reset}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_archiver' },
 { oid => '2769',
-  descr => 'statistics: number of timed checkpoints started by the bgwriter',
-  proname => 'pg_stat_get_bgwriter_timed_checkpoints', provolatile => 's',
+  descr => 'statistics: number of timed checkpoints started by the checkpointer',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_timed_checkpoints', provolatile => 's',
   proparallel => 'r', prorettype => 'int8', proargtypes => '',
-  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_bgwriter_timed_checkpoints' },
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_timed_checkpoints' },
 { oid => '2770',
-  descr => 'statistics: number of backend requested checkpoints started by the bgwriter',
-  proname => 'pg_stat_get_bgwriter_requested_checkpoints', provolatile => 's',
+  descr => 'statistics: number of backend requested checkpoints started by the checkpointer',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_requested_checkpoints', provolatile => 's',
   proparallel => 'r', prorettype => 'int8', proargtypes => '',
-  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_bgwriter_requested_checkpoints' },
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_requested_checkpoints' },
 { oid => '2771',
-  descr => 'statistics: number of buffers written by the bgwriter during checkpoints',
-  proname => 'pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_checkpoints', provolatile => 's',
+  descr => 'statistics: number of buffers written by the checkpointer',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_buf_written_checkpoints', provolatile => 's',
   proparallel => 'r', prorettype => 'int8', proargtypes => '',
-  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_checkpoints' },
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_buf_written_checkpoints' },
+{ oid => '8206', descr => 'statistics: last reset for the checkpointer',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_checkpointer_stat_reset_time', provolatile => 's',
+  proparallel => 'r', prorettype => 'timestamptz', proargtypes => '',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_checkpointer_stat_reset_time' },
 { oid => '2772',
   descr => 'statistics: number of buffers written by the bgwriter for cleaning dirty buffers',
   proname => 'pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean', provolatile => 's',
diff --git a/src/include/pgstat.h b/src/include/pgstat.h
index 28fb6292d9..b08928cefc 100644
--- a/src/include/pgstat.h
+++ b/src/include/pgstat.h
@@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ typedef struct PgStat_CheckpointerStats
 	PgStat_Counter checkpoint_write_time;	/* times in milliseconds */
 	PgStat_Counter checkpoint_sync_time;
 	PgStat_Counter buf_written_checkpoints;
+	TimestampTz stat_reset_timestamp;
 } PgStat_CheckpointerStats;
 
 
diff --git a/src/test/recovery/t/029_stats_restart.pl b/src/test/recovery/t/029_stats_restart.pl
index 83d6647d32..463f29101e 100644
--- a/src/test/recovery/t/029_stats_restart.pl
+++ b/src/test/recovery/t/029_stats_restart.pl
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ is($wal_start->{reset}, $wal_restart->{reset},
 
 ## Check that checkpoint stats are reset, WAL stats aren't affected
 
-$node->safe_psql($connect_db, "SELECT pg_stat_reset_shared('bgwriter')");
+$node->safe_psql($connect_db, "SELECT pg_stat_reset_shared('checkpointer')");
 
 $sect = "post ckpt reset";
 my $ckpt_reset     = checkpoint_stats();
@@ -323,9 +323,9 @@ sub checkpoint_stats
 	my %results;
 
 	$results{count} = $node->safe_psql($connect_db,
-		"SELECT checkpoints_timed + checkpoints_req FROM pg_stat_bgwriter");
+		"SELECT timed_checkpoints + requested_checkpoints FROM pg_stat_checkpointer");
 	$results{reset} = $node->safe_psql($connect_db,
-		"SELECT stats_reset FROM pg_stat_bgwriter");
+		"SELECT stats_reset FROM pg_stat_checkpointer");
 
 	return \%results;
 }
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 9c9adb6140..f18c047a42 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1814,15 +1814,16 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
-pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_timed_checkpoints() AS checkpoints_timed,
-    pg_stat_get_bgwriter_requested_checkpoints() AS checkpoints_req,
-    pg_stat_get_checkpoint_write_time() AS checkpoint_write_time,
-    pg_stat_get_checkpoint_sync_time() AS checkpoint_sync_time,
-    pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_checkpoints() AS buffers_checkpoint,
-    pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
+pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_stat_reset_time() AS stats_reset;
+pg_stat_checkpointer| SELECT pg_stat_get_timed_checkpoints() AS timed_checkpoints,
+    pg_stat_get_requested_checkpoints() AS requested_checkpoints,
+    pg_stat_get_checkpoint_write_time() AS checkpoint_write_time,
+    pg_stat_get_checkpoint_sync_time() AS checkpoint_sync_time,
+    pg_stat_get_buf_written_checkpoints() AS buffers_written_checkpoints,
+    pg_stat_get_checkpointer_stat_reset_time() AS stats_reset;
 pg_stat_database| SELECT oid AS datid,
     datname,
         CASE
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 937b2101b3..2bbe17ba7d 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -782,8 +782,8 @@ SELECT sessions > :db_stat_sessions FROM pg_stat_database WHERE datname = (SELEC
  t
 (1 row)
 
--- Test pg_stat_bgwriter checkpointer-related stats, together with pg_stat_wal
-SELECT checkpoints_req AS rqst_ckpts_before FROM pg_stat_bgwriter \gset
+-- Test pg_stat_checkpointer checkpointer-related stats, together with pg_stat_wal
+SELECT requested_checkpoints AS rqst_ckpts_before FROM pg_stat_checkpointer \gset
 -- Test pg_stat_wal (and make a temp table so our temp schema exists)
 SELECT wal_bytes AS wal_bytes_before FROM pg_stat_wal \gset
 CREATE TEMP TABLE test_stats_temp AS SELECT 17;
@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ DROP TABLE test_stats_temp;
 -- results of the first.
 CHECKPOINT;
 CHECKPOINT;
-SELECT checkpoints_req > :rqst_ckpts_before FROM pg_stat_bgwriter;
+SELECT requested_checkpoints > :rqst_ckpts_before FROM pg_stat_checkpointer;
  ?column? 
 ----------
  t
@@ -884,6 +884,21 @@ SELECT stats_reset > :'bgwriter_reset_ts'::timestamptz FROM pg_stat_bgwriter;
 (1 row)
 
 SELECT stats_reset AS bgwriter_reset_ts FROM pg_stat_bgwriter \gset
+-- Test that reset_shared with checkpointer specified as the stats type works
+SELECT stats_reset AS checkpointer_reset_ts FROM pg_stat_checkpointer \gset
+SELECT pg_stat_reset_shared('checkpointer');
+ pg_stat_reset_shared 
+----------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT stats_reset > :'checkpointer_reset_ts'::timestamptz FROM pg_stat_checkpointer;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT stats_reset AS checkpointer_reset_ts FROM pg_stat_checkpointer \gset
 -- Test that reset_shared with wal specified as the stats type works
 SELECT stats_reset AS wal_reset_ts FROM pg_stat_wal \gset
 SELECT pg_stat_reset_shared('wal');
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 74e592aa8a..cfc9aa3a37 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -387,8 +387,8 @@ SELECT sessions AS db_stat_sessions FROM pg_stat_database WHERE datname = (SELEC
 SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
 SELECT sessions > :db_stat_sessions FROM pg_stat_database WHERE datname = (SELECT current_database());
 
--- Test pg_stat_bgwriter checkpointer-related stats, together with pg_stat_wal
-SELECT checkpoints_req AS rqst_ckpts_before FROM pg_stat_bgwriter \gset
+-- Test pg_stat_checkpointer checkpointer-related stats, together with pg_stat_wal
+SELECT requested_checkpoints AS rqst_ckpts_before FROM pg_stat_checkpointer \gset
 
 -- Test pg_stat_wal (and make a temp table so our temp schema exists)
 SELECT wal_bytes AS wal_bytes_before FROM pg_stat_wal \gset
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ DROP TABLE test_stats_temp;
 CHECKPOINT;
 CHECKPOINT;
 
-SELECT checkpoints_req > :rqst_ckpts_before FROM pg_stat_bgwriter;
+SELECT requested_checkpoints > :rqst_ckpts_before FROM pg_stat_checkpointer;
 SELECT wal_bytes > :wal_bytes_before FROM pg_stat_wal;
 
 -- Test pg_stat_get_backend_idset() and some allied functions.
@@ -440,6 +440,12 @@ SELECT pg_stat_reset_shared('bgwriter');
 SELECT stats_reset > :'bgwriter_reset_ts'::timestamptz FROM pg_stat_bgwriter;
 SELECT stats_reset AS bgwriter_reset_ts FROM pg_stat_bgwriter \gset
 
+-- Test that reset_shared with checkpointer specified as the stats type works
+SELECT stats_reset AS checkpointer_reset_ts FROM pg_stat_checkpointer \gset
+SELECT pg_stat_reset_shared('checkpointer');
+SELECT stats_reset > :'checkpointer_reset_ts'::timestamptz FROM pg_stat_checkpointer;
+SELECT stats_reset AS checkpointer_reset_ts FROM pg_stat_checkpointer \gset
+
 -- Test that reset_shared with wal specified as the stats type works
 SELECT stats_reset AS wal_reset_ts FROM pg_stat_wal \gset
 SELECT pg_stat_reset_shared('wal');
-- 
2.34.1