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Re: shared-memory based stats collector - v70

Drouvot, Bertrand <bdrouvot@amazon.com>

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From: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bdrouvot@amazon.com>
To: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-08-18T06:27:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 8/17/22 9:46 PM, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2022 at 08:49, Drouvot, Bertrand <bdrouvot@amazon.com> wrote:
>>
>> +               if (p->key.kind != PGSTAT_KIND_RELATION)
>> +                       continue;
> Hm. So presumably this needs to be extended. Either to let the caller
> decide which types of stats to return or to somehow return all the
> stats intermixed. In my monitoring code I did the latter because I
> didn't think going through the hash table repeatedly would be very
> efficient. But it's definitely a pretty awkward API since I need a
> switch statement that explicitly lists each case and casts the result.

What I had in mind is to provide an API to retrieve stats for those that 
would need to connect to each database individually otherwise.

That's why I focused on PGSTAT_KIND_RELATION that has 
PgStat_KindInfo.accessed_across_databases set to false.

I think that another candidate could also be PGSTAT_KIND_FUNCTION.

I think that's the 2 cases where a monitoring tool connected to a single 
database is currently missing stats related to databases it is not 
connected to.

So what about 2 functions? one to get the stats for the relations and 
one to get the stats for the functions? (And maybe a view on top of each 
of them?)

Regards,

-- 
Bertrand Drouvot
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

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.