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Re: per backend WAL statistics

Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>

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From: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Date: 2025-02-17T07:59:26Z
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Hi,

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 04:25:46PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 06:59:40AM +0000, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> > There is still something that would simplify what is done here: it's the
> > "the elimination of the write & sync columns for pg_stat_wal" mentioned in [2].
> 
> Yeah, still you cannot just remove them because the data tracked in
> pg_stat_io is not entirely the same, right?

I think that we can just remove them. They are tracked and incremented at the
exact same places in issue_xlog_fsync() and XLogWrite(). What differs is the
"bytes" (as pg_stat_wal.wal_bytes somehow "focus" on the wal records size while
the pg_stat_io's unit is the wal_block_size) and we keep them in both places.
Also it looks like we can get rid of PendingWalStats...

Regards,
 
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Bertrand Drouvot
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
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Commits

  1. Fix use-after-free in pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid()

  2. Remove initialization from PendingBackendStats

  3. Add WAL data to backend statistics

  4. Improve check for detection of pending data in backend statistics

  5. Fix some gaps in pg_stat_io with WAL receiver and WAL summarizer

  6. Handle auxiliary processes in SQL functions of backend statistics

  7. Invent pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid()

  8. Refactor code of pg_stat_get_wal() building result tuple

  9. Adding new PgStat_WalCounters structure in pgstat.h

  10. Remove pgstat_flush_wal()

  11. Refactor some code related to backend statistics

  12. Add backend-level statistics to pgstats