The new names are intended to match those in an upcoming patch that adds
a few GUCs to configure the SLRU buffer sizes.
Backwards compatibility concern: this changes the accepted names for
function pg_stat_slru_rest(). Since this function recognizes "any other
string" as a request to reset the entry for "other", this means that
calling it with the old names would silently reset "other" instead of
doing nothing or throwing an error.
Reviewed-by: Andrey M. Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202402261616.dlriae7b6emv@alvherre.pgsql
Some buildfarm members have been failing a test related to pg_stat_io,
as an effect of 23c8c0c8f4 that has switched pg_stat_reset_shared()
from being a no-op to reset all shared stats types.
This extra reset has the effect to make pg_stat_io's counters low enough
that little concurrent activity is enough to cause a failure. Another
thing I have considered is to move this sequence at the end of
stats.sql, but there are other instabilities, one being pg_stat_wal.
Knowing that there are already tests for the reset of each individual
shared stats target, this test has limited value, so let's remove it to
minimize the number of resets done for each shared stats type. This
should hopefully improve the stability of the whole.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3500949.1700935734@sss.pgh.pa.us
Currently, pg_stat_reset_shared() cannot reset the counters in the view
pg_stat_slru even if it is a type of shared stats. This patch adds
support for a new value in pg_stat_reset_shared(), called "slru", able
to do that. Note that pg_stat_reset_shared(NULL) also resets SLRU
counters.
There may be a point in removing pg_stat_reset_slru() that was
introduced in 28cac71bd3 (v13~) as the new option overlaps with this
function, but we would lose the ability to reset individual SLRU
counters. This is left for future reconsideration.
Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e3c25d72e81378e7b64f3c52e0306fc9@oss.nttdata.com
pg_stat_reset_slru currently requires an input argument, either:
- NULL to reset the SLRU counters of everything.
- A specific value to reset a single SLRU cache.
This commit adds support for a new pattern: pg_stat_reset_slru without
any argument works the same way as pg_stat_reset_slru(NULL), relying on
a DEFAULT in the function definition to handle this case. This makes
the function more consistent with 23c8c0c8f4.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACW1VizYg01EeH_cA-7qA+4NzWVAoZ5Lw9_XYO1RRHAZbA@mail.gmail.com
Currently, pg_stat_reset_shared() can use an argument to specify the
target of statistics to reset, doing nothing for NULL as it is strict.
This patch adds to pg_stat_reset_shared() the possibility to reset all
the stats types already handled in this function rather than do nothing
if the argument value given is NULL or if nothing is specified
(proisstrict is switched to false). Like previously, SLRUs are not
included in what gets reset.
The idea to use NULL or no argument to control if all the shared stats
already covered by this function should be reset has been proposed by
Andres Freund.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier, Bharath Rupireddy,
Matthias van de Meent
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4291a55137ddda77cf7cc5f46e846daf@oss.nttdata.com
Historically, the statistics of the checkpointer have been always part
of pg_stat_bgwriter. This commit removes a few columns from
pg_stat_bgwriter, and introduces pg_stat_checkpointer with equivalent,
renamed columns (plus a new one for the reset timestamp):
- checkpoints_timed -> num_timed
- checkpoints_req -> num_requested
- checkpoint_write_time -> write_time
- checkpoint_sync_time -> sync_time
- buffers_checkpoint -> buffers_written
The fields of PgStat_CheckpointerStats and its SQL functions are renamed
to match with the new field names, for consistency. Note that
background writer and checkpointer have been split into two different
processes in commits 806a2aee37 and bf405ba8e4. The pgstat
structures were already split, making this change straight-forward.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Andres Freund, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVxX2ii=66RypXRweZe2EsBRiPMj0aHfRfHUeXJcC7kHg@mail.gmail.com
This commit fixes the function of $subject for shared relations. This
feature has been added by e042678. Unfortunately, this new behavior got
removed by 5891c7a when moving statistics to shared memory.
Reported-by: Mitsuru Hinata
Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7cc69f863d9b1bc677544e3accd0e4b4@oss.nttdata.com
Backpatch-through: 15
The stats regression test attempts to ensure that Buffer Access Strategy
"reuses" are being counted in pg_stat_io by vacuuming a table which is larger
than the size of the strategy ring. However, when shared buffers are in
sufficiently high demand, another backend could evict one of the blocks in the
strategy ring before the first backend has a chance to reuse the buffer. The
backend using the strategy would then evict another shared buffer and add that
buffer to the strategy ring. This counts as an eviction and not a reuse in
pg_stat_io. Count both evictions and reuses in the test to ensure it does not
fail incorrectly.
Reported-by: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>,
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bNG27AxG9TdPtwsL6wg8AWbVckjmTL2t1HF=miDQuNtw@mail.gmail.com
28e626bde0 added the concept of IOOps but neglected to include writeback
operations. ac8d53dae5 added time spent doing these I/O operations. Without
counting writeback, checkpointer write time in the log often differed
substantially from that in pg_stat_io. To fix this, add IOOp IOOP_WRITEBACK
and track writeback in pg_stat_io.
Bumps catversion.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230419172326.dhgyo4wrrhulovt6%40awork3.anarazel.de
An update of the GUC stats_fetch_consistency in a transaction would be
able to trigger an assertion when doing cache->snapshot. In this case,
when retrieving a pgstat entry after the switch, a new snapshot would be
rebuilt, confusing pgstat_build_snapshot() because a snapshot is already
cached with an unexpected mode ("cache").
In order to fix this problem, this commit adds a flag to force a
snapshot clear each time this GUC is changed. Some tests are added to
check, while on it.
Some optimizations in avoiding the snapshot clear should be possible
depending on what is cached and the current GUC value, I guess, but this
solution is simple, and ensures that the state of the cache is updated
each time a new pgstat entry is fetched, hence being consistent with the
level wanted by the client that has set the GUC.
Note that cache->none and snapshot->none would not cause issues, as
fetching a pgstat entry would be retrieved from shared memory on the
second attempt, however a snapshot would still be cached. Similarly,
none->snapshot and none->cache would build a new snapshot on the second
fetch attempt. Finally, snapshot->cache would cache a new snapshot on
the second attempt.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17804-2a118cd046f2d0e5@postgresql.org
backpatch-through: 15
a9c70b46 added the statistics view pg_stat_io which contained columns
"io_context" and "io_object". Given that the columns are in the
pg_stat_io view, the "io" prefix is somewhat redundant, so remove it.
The code variables referring to these fields are kept unchanged so as
they can keep their context about I/O.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Melanie Plageman
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fabrízio de Royes Mello
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_aAQoJWrvT2BYYQvJChFKra_O-5ra3jhzKJZqWsTR1CPQ@mail.gmail.com
Among other things, this should make it easier to calculate a useful cache hit
ratio by excluding buffer reads via buffer access strategies. As buffer access
strategies reuse buffers (and thus evict the prior buffer contents), it is
normal to see reads on repeated scans of the same data.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_beMa9Hzih40%3DXPYqhDVz6tsgUGTrhZXRo%3Dunp%2Bszb%3DUA%40mail.gmail.com
Counting writes only for io_context = 'normal' is unreliable, as backends
using a buffer access strategy could flush all of the dirty buffers out from
under the other backends and checkpointer. Change the test to count writes in
any context. This achieves roughly the same coverage anyway.
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ZAnWU8WbXEDjrfUE%40telsasoft.com
When determining whether an index update may be skipped by using HOT, we
can ignore attributes indexed by block summarizing indexes without
references to individual tuples that need to be cleaned up.
A new type TU_UpdateIndexes provides a signal to the executor to
determine which indexes to update - no indexes, all indexes, or only the
summarizing indexes.
This also removes rd_indexattr list, and replaces it with rd_attrsvalid
flag. The list was not used anywhere, and a simple flag is sufficient.
This was originally committed as 5753d4ee32, but then got reverted by
e3fcca0d0d because of correctness issues.
Original patch by Josef Simanek, various fixes and improvements by Tomas
Vondra and me.
Authors: Matthias van de Meent, Josef Simanek, Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/05ebcb44-f383-86e3-4f31-0a97a55634cf@enterprisedb.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFp7QwpMRGcDAQumN7onN9HjrJ3u4X3ZRXdGFT0K5G2JWvnbWg%40mail.gmail.com
A NULL result should be reported when a stats timestamp is set to 0, but
c037471 missed that, leading to a confusing timestamp value after for
example a DML on a freshly-created relation with no scans done on it
yet.
This impacted the following attributes for two system views:
- pg_stat_all_tables.last_idx_scan
- pg_stat_all_tables.last_seq_scan
- pg_stat_all_indexes.last_idx_scan
Reported-by: Robert Treat
Analyzed-by: Peter Eisentraut
Author: Dave Page
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABV9wwPzMfSaz3EfKXXDxKmMprbxwF5r6WPuxqA=5mzRUqfTGg@mail.gmail.com
It can be useful to know when a relation has last been used, e.g., when
evaluating whether an index is still required. It was already possible to
infer the time of the last usage by tracking, e.g.,
pg_stat_all_indexes.idx_scan over time. But far from everybody does so.
To make it easier to detect the last time a relation has been scanned, track
that time in each relation's pgstat entry. To minimize overhead a) the
timestamp is updated only when the backend pending stats entry is flushed to
shared stats b) the last transaction's stop timestamp is used as the
timestamp.
Bumps catalog and stats format versions.
Author: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Reviewed-by: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+OCxozrVHNFVEPkweUHMZje+t1tfY816d9MZYc6eZwOOusOaQ@mail.gmail.com
Up to now, the ID values returned by pg_stat_get_backend_idset() and
used by pg_stat_get_backend_activity() and allied functions were just
indexes into a local array of sessions seen by the last stats refresh.
This is problematic for a few reasons. The "ID" of a session can vary
over its existence, which is surprising. Also, while these numbers
often match the "backend ID" used for purposes like temp schema
assignment, that isn't reliably true. We can fairly cheaply switch
things around to make these numbers actually be the sessions' backend
IDs. The added test case illustrates that with this definition, the
temp schema used by a given session can be obtained given its PID.
While here, delete some dead code that guarded against getting
a NULL return from pgstat_fetch_stat_local_beentry(). That can't
happen as long as the caller is careful to pass an in-range array
index, as all the callers are. (This code may not have been dead
when written, but it surely is now.)
Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220815205811.GA250990@nathanxps13
Because index creation does not go through heap_create_with_catalog() we
didn't call pgstat_create_relation(), leading to index stats of a newly
created realtion not getting dropped during rollback. To fix, move the
pgstat_create_relation() to heap_create(), which indexes do use.
Similarly, because dropping an index does not go through
heap_drop_with_catalog(), we didn't drop index stats when the transaction
dropping an index committed. Here there's no convenient common path for
indexes and relations, so index_drop() now calls pgstat_drop_relation().
Add tests for transactional index stats handling.
Author: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bdrouvot@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/51bbf286-2b4a-8998-bd12-eaae4b765d99@amazon.com
Backpatch: 15-, like 8b1dccd37c, which introduced the bug
Very occasionally the stats test failed due to the number of sessions not
being updated yet. Likely this requires that there is contention on the
database's stats entry. Solve this by forcing pending stats to be flushed
before fetching the stats.
I verified that there are no other test failures after making
pgstat_report_stat() only flush stats when force = true.
Per message from Tom Lane and buildfarm member crake.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3428246.1663271992@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch: 15-, where 5264add784 added the test
Commit e3fcca0d0d reverted modifications to HOT for BRIN, but it also
removed a couple unrelated tests from stats.sql. Reinstate those tests.
Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut
This reverts commits 5753d4ee32 and fe60b67250 that modified HOT to
ignore BRIN indexes. The commit message for 5753d4ee32 claims that:
When determining whether an index update may be skipped by using
HOT, we can ignore attributes indexed only by BRIN indexes. There
are no index pointers to individual tuples in BRIN, and the page
range summary will be updated anyway as it relies on visibility
info.
This is partially incorrect - it's true BRIN indexes don't point to
individual tuples, so HOT chains are not an issue, but the visibitlity
info is not sufficient to keep the index up to date. This can easily
result in corrupted indexes, as demonstrated in the hackers thread.
This does not mean relaxing the HOT restrictions for BRIN is a lost
cause, but it needs to handle the two aspects (allowing HOT chains and
updating the page range summaries) as separate. But that requires a
major changes, and it's too late for that in the current dev cycle.
Reported-by: Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/05ebcb44-f383-86e3-4f31-0a97a55634cf@enterprisedb.com
- subscriber stats reset path was untested
- slot stat sreset path for all slots was untested
- pg_stat_database.sessions etc was untested
- pg_stat_reset_shared() was untested, for any kind of shared stats
- pg_stat_reset() was untested
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220303021600.hs34ghqcw6zcokdh@alap3.anarazel.de
In the stats collector days it was hard to write tests for the stats system,
because fundamentally delivery of stats messages over UDP was not
synchronous (nor guaranteed). Now we easily can force pending stats updates to
be flushed synchronously.
This moves stats.sql into a parallel group, there isn't a reason for it to run
in isolation anymore. And it may shake out some bugs.
Bumps catversion.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220303021600.hs34ghqcw6zcokdh@alap3.anarazel.de
Previously the statistics collector received statistics updates via UDP and
shared statistics data by writing them out to temporary files regularly. These
files can reach tens of megabytes and are written out up to twice a
second. This has repeatedly prevented us from adding additional useful
statistics.
Now statistics are stored in shared memory. Statistics for variable-numbered
objects are stored in a dshash hashtable (backed by dynamic shared
memory). Fixed-numbered stats are stored in plain shared memory.
The header for pgstat.c contains an overview of the architecture.
The stats collector is not needed anymore, remove it.
By utilizing the transactional statistics drop infrastructure introduced in a
prior commit statistics entries cannot "leak" anymore. Previously leaked
statistics were dropped by pgstat_vacuum_stat(), called from [auto-]vacuum. On
systems with many small relations pgstat_vacuum_stat() could be quite
expensive.
Now that replicas drop statistics entries for dropped objects, it is not
necessary anymore to reset stats when starting from a cleanly shut down
replica.
Subsequent commits will perform some further code cleanup, adapt docs and add
tests.
Bumps PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-By: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> (in a much earlier version)
Reviewed-By: Arthur Zakirov <a.zakirov@postgrespro.ru> (in a much earlier version)
Reviewed-By: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> (in a much earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220303021600.hs34ghqcw6zcokdh@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220308205351.2xcn6k4x5yivcxyd@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210319235115.y3wz7hpnnrshdyv6@alap3.anarazel.de
Soon the stats collector will be no more, with statistics instead getting
stored in shared memory. There are a lot of references to the stats collector
in comments. This commit replaces most of these references with "cumulative
statistics system", with the remaining ones getting replaced as part of
subsequent commits.
This is done separately from the - quite large - shared memory statistics
patch to make review easier.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220303021600.hs34ghqcw6zcokdh@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220308205351.2xcn6k4x5yivcxyd@alap3.anarazel.de
pg_stat_get_replication_slot() accidentally was marked as non-strict, crashing
when called with NULL input. As it's already released, introduce an explicit
NULL check in 14, fix the catalog in HEAD.
Bumps catversion in HEAD.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220326212432.s5n2maw6kugnpyxw@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 14-, where replication slot stats were introduced
The test added by 5753d4ee32 relies on statistics collector, and so it
may occasionally fail when the UDP packet gets lost. Some machines may
be susceptible to this, probably depending on load etc.
Move the test to stats.sql, which is known to already have this issue
and people know to ignore it.
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFp7QwpMRGcDAQumN7onN9HjrJ3u4X3ZRXdGFT0K5G2JWvnbWg%40mail.gmail.com
This reverts much of commit f03a9ca436,
but leaves the relpages/reltuples probe in select_parallel.sql.
The pg_stat_all_tables probes are unstable enough to be annoying,
and it no longer seems likely that they will teach us anything more
about the underlying problem. I'd still like some more confirmation
though that the observed plan instability is caused by VACUUM leaving
relpages/reltuples as zero for one of these tables.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKG+0CxrKRWRMf5ymN3gm+BECHna2B-q1w8onKBep4HasUw@mail.gmail.com
We're seeing occasional instability in the plans generated for
parallel queries on the "a_star" table hierarchy. This suggests
that something is changing the planner's stats for those tables,
but that should not be happening within a regression test run.
To try to gather some information about what's happening, insert
additional queries to check the basic page/tuple counts for these
tables, as well as whether any vacuums or analyzes have happened
on them. (We expect that only the database-wide VACUUM in
sanity_check.sql will have touched them.)
I added the probes not only in select_parallel.sql itself, but
also in stats.sql, bearing in mind that the stats collector's
lag may prevent the initial query from reporting current truth.
If any extra vacuum/analyze has happened, the recheck in stats.sql
definitely ought to see it.
This commit can be reverted once we figure out what's going on.
Per suggestion from David Rowley, though I changed the queries around.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKG+0CxrKRWRMf5ymN3gm+BECHna2B-q1w8onKBep4HasUw@mail.gmail.com
The stanza of ExecuteTruncate[Guts] that truncates a target table's toast
relation re-used the loop local variable "rel" to reference the toast rel.
This was safe enough when written, but commit d42358efb added code below
that that supposed "rel" still pointed to the parent table. Therefore,
the stats counter update was applied to the wrong relcache entry (the
toast rel not the user rel); and if we were unlucky and that relcache
entry had been flushed during reindex_relation, very bad things could
ensue.
(I'm surprised that CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS testing hasn't found this.
I'm even more surprised that the problem wasn't detected during the
development of d42358efb; it must not have been tested in any case
with a toast table, as the incorrect stats counts are very obvious.)
To fix, replace use of "rel" in that code branch with a more local
variable. Adjust test cases added by d42358efb so that some of them
use tables with toast tables.
Per bug #15540 from Pan Bian. Back-patch to 9.5 where d42358efb came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15540-01078812338195c0@postgresql.org
If we don't have to return any columns from heap tuples, and there's
no need to recheck qual conditions, and the heap page is all-visible,
then we can skip fetching the heap page altogether.
Skip prefetching pages too, when possible, on the assumption that the
recheck flag will remain the same from one page to the next. While that
assumption is hardly bulletproof, it seems like a good bet most of the
time, and better than prefetching pages we don't need.
This commit installs the executor infrastructure, but doesn't change
any planner cost estimates, thus possibly causing bitmap scans to
not be chosen in cases where this change renders them the best choice.
I (tgl) am not entirely convinced that we need to account for this
behavior in the planner, because I think typically the bitmap scan would
get chosen anyway if it's the best bet. In any case the submitted patch
took way too many shortcuts, resulting in too many clearly-bad choices,
to be committable.
Alexander Kuzmenkov, reviewed by Alexey Chernyshov, and whacked around
rather heavily by me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/239a8955-c0fc-f506-026d-c837e86c827b@postgrespro.ru
pg_stat_get_snapshot_timestamp() returns the timestamp seen in the "global"
stats file. Because pgstat_write_statsfiles() writes per-DB stats files
before the global file (or at least before renaming it into place), there
is a window where the test backend can see all the stats updates that
wait_for_stats() was checking for (all of which come from the per-DB file)
but also see the same global stats file it had seen at the start of the
test script. This results in a failure in only the "snapshot_newer" query,
as reported by a couple of buildfarm members recently.
I suspect that this ought to be back-patched. Commit 4e37b3e15 has
evidently increased the probability of this window getting hit, but
it's not apparent why it could not have been hit before. I'll refrain
for the moment though.
Commit 60690a6fe attempted to fix the wait_for_stats() function in this
test so that it would wait properly if the tenk2 scans were done in
parallel workers instead of the main session (typically as a consequence of
force_parallel_mode being turned on). However, we made it test for whether
the main session's actions had been reported by looking for inserts on
'trunc_stats_test'. This is the Wrong Thing, because those aren't the last
updates we expect the main session to do. As shown by recent failures on
buildfarm member frogmouth, it's entirely likely that the trunc_stats_test
updates will be reported in a separate message from later updates, which
means there can be a window in which wait_for_stats() will exit but not all
the updates we are expecting to see will have arrived. We should test for
the last updates we're expecting, namely those on 'trunc_stats_test4'.
Unfortunately, I doubt that this explains frogmouth's failures, because
there's no reason to believe that it's running the tenk2 queries in
parallel. Still, the test is wrong on its own terms, so fix and back-patch
to 9.6 where parallel query came in.
On faster machines, the overall runtime for running the core regression
tests is under twenty seconds these days, of which the hard-wired delays
in the stats test are a significant fraction. But on closer inspection,
it seems like we shouldn't need those.
The initial 2-second delay is there only to reduce the risk of the test's
stats messages not getting sent due to contention. But analysis of the
last ten years' worth of buildfarm runs shows no evidence that such
failures actually occur. (We do see failures that look like stats
messages not getting sent, particularly on Windows; but there is little
reason to believe that the initial delay reduces their frequency.)
The later 1-second delay is there to ensure that our session's stats
will have gotten sent. But we could also do that by starting a fresh
session, which takes well under 1 second even on very slow machines.
Hence, let's remove both delays and see what happens. The first delay
was the only test of pg_sleep_for() in the regression tests, but we can
move that responsibility into wait_for_stats().
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17795.1493869423@sss.pgh.pa.us
Historically, the wait_for_stats() function in this test has simply checked
for a report of an indexscan on tenk2, corresponding to the last command
issued before we expect stats updates to appear. However, with parallel
query that indexscan could be done by a parallel worker that will emit
its stats counters to the collector before the session's main backend does
(a full second before, in fact, thanks to the "pg_sleep(1.0)" added by
commit 957d08c81f). That leaves a sizable window in which an
autovacuum-triggered write of the stats files would present a state in
which the indexscan on tenk2 appears to have been done, but none of the
write updates performed by the test have been. This is evidently the
explanation for intermittent failures seen by me and on buildfarm member
mandrill.
To fix, we should check separately for both the tenk2 seqscan and indexscan
counts, since those might be reported by different processes that could be
delayed arbitrarily on an overloaded test machine. And we need to check
for at least one update-related count. If we ever allow parallel workers
to do writes, this will get even more complicated ... but in view of all
the other hard problems that will entail, I don't feel a need to solve this
one today.
Per research by Rahila Syed and myself; part of this patch is Rahila's.
This works by keeping a per-subtransaction record of the ins/upd/del
counters before the truncate, and then resetting them; this record is
useful to return to the previous state in case the truncate is rolled
back, either in a subtransaction or whole transaction. The state is
propagated upwards as subtransactions commit.
When the per-table data is sent to the stats collector, a flag indicates
to reset the live/dead counters to zero as well.
Catalog version bumped due to the change in pgstat format.
Author: Alexander Shulgin
Discussion: 1007.1207238291@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: 548F7D38.2000401@BlueTreble.com
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Jim Nasby
Per discussion, this could be useful for purposes such as programmatically
detecting a nonresponding stats collector. We already have the timestamp
anyway, it's just a matter of providing a SQL-accessible function to fetch
it.
Matt Kelly, reviewed by Jim Nasby
This bollixes the test because it's expecting to see the idx_tup_fetch
counter increase, which won't happen if heap fetches were avoided by use
of an index-only scan. Per buildfarm results.
While at it, let's just make sure that enable_seqscan and enable_indexscan
are ON for this test ...
* stats_start_collector goes away; we always start the collector process,
unless prevented by a problem with setting up the stats UDP socket.
* stats_reset_on_server_start goes away; it seems useless in view of the
availability of pg_stat_reset().
* stats_block_level and stats_row_level are merged into a single variable
"track_counts", which controls all reports sent to the collector process.
* stats_command_string is renamed to track_activities.
* log_autovacuum is renamed to log_autovacuum_min_duration to better reflect
its meaning.
The log_autovacuum change is not a compatibility issue since it didn't exist
before 8.3 anyway. The other changes need to be release-noted.
messages to the stats collector. This avoids the problem that enabling
stats_row_level for autovacuum has a significant overhead for short
read-only transactions, as noted by Arjen van der Meijden. We can avoid
an extra gettimeofday call by piggybacking on the one done for WAL-logging
xact commit or abort (although that doesn't help read-only transactions,
since they don't WAL-log anything).
In my proposal for this, I noted that we could change the WAL log entries
for commit/abort to record full TimestampTz precision, instead of only
time_t as at present. That's not done in this patch, but will be committed
separately.
already collected in the current transaction; this allows plpgsql functions to
watch for stats updates even though they are confined to a single transaction.
Use this instead of the previous kluge involving pg_stat_file() to wait for
the stats collector to update in the stats regression test. Internally,
decouple storage of stats snapshots from transaction boundaries; they'll
now stick around until someone calls pgstat_clear_snapshot --- which xact.c
still does at transaction end, to maintain the previous behavior. This makes
the logic a lot cleaner, at the price of a couple dozen cycles per transaction
exit.
Alvaro Herrera
Michael Paquier
Andres Freund
Tomas Vondra
Tom Lane
Noah Misch
Robert Haas