Re: [patch] CLUSTER blocks scanned progress reporting

Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>

From: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
To: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-11-24T14:05:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 2020/11/21 2:32, Matthias van de Meent wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The pg_stat_progress_cluster view can report incorrect
> heap_blks_scanned values when synchronize_seqscans is enabled, because
> it allows the sequential heap scan to not start at block 0. This can
> result in wraparounds in the heap_blks_scanned column when the table
> scan wraps around, and starting the next phase with heap_blks_scanned
> != heap_blks_total. This issue was introduced with the
> pg_stat_progress_cluster view.

Good catch! I agree that this is a bug.

> 
> The attached patch fixes the issue by accounting for a non-0
> heapScan->rs_startblock and calculating the correct number with a
> non-0 heapScan->rs_startblock in mind.

Thanks for the patch! It basically looks good to me.

It's a bit waste of cycles to calculate and update the number of scanned
blocks every cycles. So I'm inclined to change the code as follows.
Thought?

+	BlockNumber	prev_cblock = InvalidBlockNumber;
<snip>
+			if (prev_cblock != heapScan->rs_cblock)
+			{
+				pgstat_progress_update_param(PROGRESS_CLUSTER_HEAP_BLKS_SCANNED,
+											 (heapScan->rs_cblock +
+											  heapScan->rs_nblocks -
+											  heapScan->rs_startblock
+												 ) % heapScan->rs_nblocks + 1);
+				prev_cblock = heapScan->rs_cblock;
+			}

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao
Advanced Computing Technology Center
Research and Development Headquarters
NTT DATA CORPORATION



Commits

  1. Fix CLUSTER progress reporting of number of blocks scanned.