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shared-memory based stats collector

Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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From: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2018-06-29T08:34:18Z
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Hello.

This is intended to provide more stats like the following thread.

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20171010.192616.108347483.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp

Most major obstracle for having more items in statistics
collector views comes from the mechanism to share the values
among backends. It is currently using a file. The stats collector
writes a file by triggers from backens then backens reads the
written file. Larger file makes the latency longer and we don't
have a spare bandwidth for additional statistics items.

Nowadays PostgreSQL has dynamic shared hash (dshash) so we can
use this as the main storage of statistics. We can share data
without a stress using this.

A PoC previously posted tried to use "locally copied" dshash but
it doesn't looks fine so I steered to different direction.

With this patch dshash can create a local copy based on dynhash.

This patch consists of tree files.

v1-0001-Give-dshash-ability-to-make-a-local-snapshot.patch

  adds dshash to make a local copy backed by dynahash.

v1-0002-Change-stats-collector-to-an-axiliary-process.patch

  change the stats collector to be a auxiliary process so that it
  can attach dynamic shared memory.

v1-0003-dshash-based-stats-collector.patch

  implements shared-memory based stats collector.

I'll put more detailed explanation later.

regards.

-- 
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center

Commits

  1. Improve comment about dropped entries in pgstat.c

  2. Fix temporary memory leak in system table index scans

  3. pgstat: set timestamps of fixed-numbered stats after a crash.

  4. pgstat: Update docs to match the shared memory stats reality.

  5. pgstat: Hide instability in stats.spec with -DCATCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE.

  6. pgstat: add/extend tests for resetting various kinds of stats.

  7. Add minimal tests for recovery conflict handling.

  8. pgstat: test stats interactions with physical replication.

  9. pgstat: add tests for handling of restarts, including crashes.

  10. pgstat: add tests for transaction behaviour, 2PC, function stats.

  11. pgstat: add pg_stat_have_stats() test helper.

  12. pgstat: add pg_stat_force_next_flush(), use it to simplify tests.

  13. pgstat: move pgstat.c to utils/activity.

  14. pgstat: store statistics in shared memory.

  15. pgstat: remove stats_temp_directory.

  16. pgstat: rename STATS_COLLECTOR GUC group to STATS_CUMULATIVE.

  17. pgstat: revise replication slot API in preparation for shared memory stats.

  18. pgstat: scaffolding for transactional stats creation / drop.

  19. pgstat: introduce PgStat_Kind enum.

  20. pgstat: prepare APIs used by pgstatfuncs for shared memory stats.

  21. pgstat: add pgstat_copy_relation_stats().

  22. pgstat: rename some pgstat_send_* functions to pgstat_report_*.

  23. pgstat: stats collector references in comments.

  24. pgstat: move transactional code into pgstat_xact.c.

  25. dsm: allow use in single user mode.

  26. dshash: revise sequential scan support.

  27. pgstat: remove some superflous comments from pgstat.h.

  28. pgstat: reorder pgstat.[ch] contents.

  29. pgstat: split different types of stats into separate files.

  30. pgstat: introduce pgstat_relation_should_count().

  31. pgstat: separate "xact level" handling out of relation specific functions.

  32. pgstat: rename pgstat_initstats() to pgstat_relation_init().

  33. pgstat: split out WAL handling from pgstat_{initialize,report_stat}.

  34. pgstat: run pgindent on pgstat.c/h.

  35. pgstat: split relation, database handling out of pgstat_report_stat().

  36. Move code around in StartupXLOG().

  37. pgstat: Prepare to use mechanism for truncated rels also for droppped rels.

  38. pgstat: Split out relation stats handling from AtEO[Sub]Xact_PgStat() etc.

  39. pgstat: Schedule per-backend pgstat shutdown via before_shmem_exit().

  40. Schedule ShutdownXLOG() in single user mode using before_shmem_exit().

  41. Make parallel worker shutdown complete entirely via before_shmem_exit().

  42. pgstat: Bring up pgstat in BaseInit() to fix uninitialized use of pgstat by AV.

  43. pgstat: split reporting/fetching of bgwriter and checkpointer stats.

  44. Split backend status and progress related functionality out of pgstat.c.

  45. Split wait event related code from pgstat.[ch] into wait_event.[ch].

  46. Make archiver process an auxiliary process.

  47. Force to send remaining WAL stats to the stats collector at walwriter exit.

  48. Add pg_stat_database counters for sessions and session time

  49. Collect statistics about SLRU caches

  50. Don't run atexit callbacks in quickdie signal handlers.

  51. Create a "fast path" for acquiring weak relation locks.