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

Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>

From: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: andres@anarazel.de, melanieplageman@gmail.com, vignesh21@gmail.com, pryzby@telsasoft.com, lukas@fittl.com, alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org, magnus@hagander.net, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, thomas.munro@gmail.com, m.sakrejda@gmail.com
Date: 2023-03-06T06:48:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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At Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:24:25 +0900 (JST), Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote in 
> In any case, I think we need to avoid such concurrent autovacuum/analyze.

If it is correct, I believe the attached fix works.

regads.

-- 
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center

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.