Re: shared-memory based stats collector

Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: alvherre@2ndquadrant.com, andres@anarazel.de, ah@cybertec.at, magnus@hagander.net, robertmhaas@gmail.com, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2018-11-28T22:13:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 11/27/18 9:59 AM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote:
> ...
> 
> v10-0001-sequential-scan-for-dshash.patch
> v10-0002-Add-conditional-lock-feature-to-dshash.patch
>   fixed.
> v10-0003-Make-archiver-process-an-auxiliary-process.patch
>   fixed.
> v10-0004-Shared-memory-based-stats-collector.patch
>   updated not to touch guc.
> v10-0005-Remove-the-GUC-stats_temp_directory.patch
>   collected all guc-related changes.
>   updated not to break other programs.
> v10-0006-Split-out-backend-status-monitor-part-from-pgstat.patch
>   basebackup.c requires both bestats.h and pgstat.h
> v10-0007-Documentation-update.patch
>   small change related to 0005.
> 

I need to do a more thorough review of part 0006, but these patches
seems quite fine to me. I'd however merge 0007 into the other relevant
parts (it seems like a mix of docs changes for 0004, 0005 and 0006).

Thinking about it a bit more, I'm wondering if we need to keep 0004 and
0005 separate. My understanding is that the stats_temp_directory is used
only from the stats collector, so it probably does not make much sense
to keep it after 0004. We may also keep it separate and then commit both
0004 and 0005 together, of course. What do you think.

regards

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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.