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Re: pg_stat_bgwriter.buffers_backend is pretty meaningless (and more?)

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-12-16T21:24:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2021-Dec-15, Melanie Plageman wrote:

> I noticed after changing the docs on the "bgwriter" target for
> pg_stat_reset_shared to say "checkpointer", that it still said "bgwriter" in
>   src/backend/po/ko.po
>   src/backend/po/it.po
>   ...
> I presume these are automatically updated with some incantation, but I wasn't
> sure what it was nor could I find documentation on this.

Yes, feel free to ignore those files completely.  They are updated using
an external workflow that you don't need to concern yourself with.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera              Valdivia, Chile  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"World domination is proceeding according to plan"        (Andrew Morton)

Commits

  1. Stabilize pg_stat_io writes test

  2. Fix flakey pg_stat_io test

  3. Suppress more compiler warnings in new pgstats code.

  4. Suppress compiler warnings in new pgstats code.

  5. Add tests for pg_stat_io

  6. Create regress_tblspc in test_setup

  7. Add pg_stat_io view, providing more detailed IO statistics

  8. pgstat: Track more detailed relation IO statistics

  9. pgstat: Infrastructure for more detailed IO statistics

  10. doc: Fix some issues in logical replication section

  11. Manual cleanup and pgindent of pgstat and bufmgr related code

  12. Have the planner consider Incremental Sort for DISTINCT

  13. Use actual backend IDs in pg_stat_get_backend_idset() and friends.

  14. Remove redundant call to pgstat_report_wal()

  15. Add BackendType for standalone backends

  16. Initialize backend status reporting during bootstrap.