Add WAL data to backend statistics
Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Add WAL data to backend statistics This commit adds per-backend WAL statistics, providing the same information as pg_stat_wal, except that it is now possible to know how much WAL activity is happening in each backend rather than an overall aggregate of all the activity. Like pg_stat_wal, the implementation relies on pgWalUsage, tracking the difference of activity between two reports to pgstats. This data can be retrieved with a new system function called pg_stat_get_backend_wal(), that returns one tuple based on the PID provided in input. Like pg_stat_get_backend_io(), this is useful when joined with pg_stat_activity to get a live picture of the WAL generated for each running backend, showing how the activity is [un]balanced. pgstat_flush_backend() gains a new flag value, able to control the flush of the WAL stats. This commit relies mostly on the infrastructure provided by 9aea73fc61d4, that has introduced backend statistics. Bump catalog version. A bump of PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID is not required, as backend stats do not persist on disk. Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z3zqc4o09dM/Ezyz@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
Files
| Path | Change | +/− |
|---|---|---|
| doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml | modified | +19 −0 |
| src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_backend.c | modified | +84 −3 |
| src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_wal.c | modified | +1 −0 |
| src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c | modified | +24 −2 |
| src/include/catalog/catversion.h | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat | modified | +7 −0 |
| src/include/pgstat.h | modified | +23 −18 |
| src/include/utils/pgstat_internal.h | modified | +2 −1 |
| src/test/regress/expected/stats.out | modified | +16 −1 |
| src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql | modified | +8 −1 |
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Discussion
- per backend WAL statistics 74 messages · 2025-01-07 → 2025-04-07