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Re: Add shared buffer hits to pg_stat_io

Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>

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From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakrejda@gmail.com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, smilingsamay@gmail.com, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: 2023-03-09T13:23:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 2:23 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
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> On 2023-03-08 13:44:32 -0500, Melanie Plageman wrote:
> > However, I am concerned that, while unlikely, this could be flakey.
> > Something could happen to force all of those blocks out of shared
> > buffers (even though they were just read in) before we hit them.
>
> You could make the test query a simple nested loop self-join, that'll prevent
> the page being evicted, because it'll still be pinned on the outer side, while
> generating hits on the inner side.

Good idea. v3 attached.

Commits

  1. Track shared buffer hits in pg_stat_io