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Re: 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: andres@anarazel.de
Cc: ah@cybertec.at, magnus@hagander.net, robertmhaas@gmail.com, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2018-09-27T13:00:49Z
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Hello. This is a super-PoC of no-UDP stats collector.

At Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:55:09 +0900 (Tokyo Standard Time), Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote in <20180926.095509.182252925.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
> > I don't think either of these is right. I think it's crucial to get rid
> > of the UDP socket, but I think using a shmem queue is the wrong
> > approach. Not just because postgres' shm_mq is single-reader/writer, but
> > also because it's plainly unnecessary.  Backends should attempt to
> > update the shared hashtable, but acquire the necessary lock
> > conditionally, and leave the pending updates of the shared hashtable to
> > a later time if they cannot acquire the lock.
> 
> Ok, I just intended to avoid reading many bytes from a file and
> thought that writer-side can be resolved later.
> 
> Currently locks on the shared stats table is acquired by dshash
> mechanism in a partition-wise manner. The number of the
> partitions is currently fixed to 2^7 = 128, but writes for the
> same table confilicts each other regardless of the number of
> partitions. As the first step, I'm going to add
> conditional-locking capability to dsahsh_find_or_insert and each
> backend holds a queue of its pending updates.

I don't have more time 'til next monday so this is just a PoC
(sorry..).

- 0001 to 0006 is rebased version of v4.
- 0007 adds conditional locking to dshash

- 0008 is the no-UDP stats collector.

If required lock is not acquired for some stats items, report
funcions immediately return after storing the values locally. The
stored values are merged with later calls. Explicitly calling
pgstat_cleanup_pending_stat() at a convenient timing tries to
apply the pending values, but the function is not called anywhere
for now.

stats collector process is used only to save and load saved stats
files and create shared memory for stats. I'm going to remove
stats collector.

I'll continue working this way.

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.