A new function pg_stat_get_backend_subxact() can be used to get
information about the number of subtransactions in the cache of
a particular backend and whether that cache has overflowed. This
can be useful for tracking down performance problems that can
result from overflowed snapshots.
Dilip Kumar, reviewed by Zhihong Yu, Nikolay Samokhvalov,
Justin Pryzby, Nathan Bossart, Ashutosh Sharma, Julien
Rouhaud. Additional design comments from Andres Freund,
Tom Lane, Bruce Momjian, and David G. Johnston.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-ut0uwkRJDQJeDPXpVyTWD46m3gt3JDToE02hTfONEN=Q@mail.gmail.com
The same code pattern is repeated 21 times for int64 counters (0 for
missing entry) and 5 times for doubles (0 for missing entry) on database
entries. This code is switched to use macros for the basic code
instead, shaving a few hundred lines of originally-duplicated code
patterns. The function names remain the same, but some fields of
PgStat_StatDBEntry have to be renamed to cope with the new style.
This is in the same spirit as 83a1a1b.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Y46stlxQ2LQE20Na@paquier.xyz
The same code pattern is repeated 17 times for int64 counters (0 for
missing entry) and 5 times for timestamps (NULL for missing entry) on
table entries. This code is switched to use a macro for the basic code
instead, shaving a few hundred lines of originally-duplicated code. The
function names remain the same, but some fields of PgStat_StatTabEntry
have to be renamed to cope with the new style.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https:/postgr.es/m/20221204173207.GA2669116@nathanxps13
The lwlock wait queue scalability issue fixed in a4adc31f69 was quite hard to
find because of the exponential backoff and because we adjust spins_per_delay
over time within a backend.
To make it easier to find similar issues in the future, add a wait event for
the pg_usleep() in perform_spin_delay(). Showing a wait event while spinning
without sleeping would increase the overhead of spinlocks, which we do not
want.
We may at some later point want to have more granular wait events, but that'd
be a substantial amount of work. This provides at least some insights into
something currently hard to observe.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
https://postgr.es/m/20221120204310.xywrhyxyytsajuuq@awork3.anarazel.de
As the list of shared relations is fixed, we can just dispatch based
IsSharedRelation(), instead of first trying to look up stats for a non-shared
rel and falling back to shared stats.
Author: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8c1851a2-a98e-e1bc-7729-37b0b95f66ec@gmail.com
We have various requirements when using a dlist_head to keep track of the
number of items in the list. This, traditionally, has been done by
maintaining a counter variable in the calling code. Here we tidy this up
by adding "dclist", which is very similar to dlist but also keeps track of
the number of items stored in the list.
Callers may use the new dclist_count() function when they need to know how
many items are stored. Obtaining the count is an O(1) operation.
For simplicity reasons, dclist and dlist both use dlist_node as their node
type and dlist_iter/dlist_mutable_iter as their iterator type. dclists
have all of the same functionality as dlists except there is no function
named dclist_delete(). To remove an item from a list dclist_delete_from()
must be used. This requires knowing which dclist the given item is stored
in.
Additionally, here we also convert some dlists where additional code
exists to keep track of the number of items stored and to make these use
dclists instead.
Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy, Aleksander Alekseev
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrtVxr+FXEX0VbViCFKDGxA3tWDgw9oFewNXCJMmwLjLg@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
Previously PgStat_StatReplSlotEntry contained the slotname, which was mainly
used when writing out the stats during shutdown, to identify the slot in the
serialized data (at runtime the index in ReplicationSlotCtl->replication_slots
is used, but that can change during a restart). Unfortunately the slotname was
overwritten when the slot's stats were reset.
That turned out to only cause "real" problems if the slot was active during
the reset, triggering an assertion failure at the next
pgstat_report_replslot(). In other paths the stats were re-initialized during
pgstat_acquire_replslot().
Fix this by removing slotname from PgStat_StatReplSlotEntry. Instead we can
get the slot's name from the slot itself. Besides fixing a bug, this also is
architecturally cleaner (a name is not really statistics). This is safe
because stats, for a slot removed while shut down, will not be restored at
startup.
In 15 the slotname is not removed, but renamed, to avoid changing the stats
format. In master, bump PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID.
This commit does not contain a test for the fix. I think this can only be
tested by a tap test starting pg_recvlogical in the background and checking
pg_recvlogical's output. That type of test is notoriously hard to be reliable,
so committing it shortly before the release is wrapped seems like a bad idea.
Reported-by: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YxfagaTXUNa9ggLb@ahch-to
Backpatch: 15-, where the bug was introduced in 5891c7a8ed
Previously, the subscription stats entry was created when the first
stats, i.e., an error on apply worker or tablesync worker, were
reported. Therefore, the stats_reset field was not updated by
pg_stat_reset_subscription_stats() if the stats entry was not
populated yet, which was different behavior than other statistics.
This change creates the subscription stats entry and initializes it at
CREATE SUBSCRIPTION time.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_Zqd-e5imT_3-ZiQv1cfsWuy16OJTiUaCvqpq4V7GVdSg@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
Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle
it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow
incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for
developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other
issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together
they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system.
After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a
good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects.
We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of
the new build system and mature it in tree.
This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports
building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For
Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for
incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but
building slower).
Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM
bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits
requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only
extensions) are not yet addressed.
When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual
studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support
MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism.
The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon
after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the
autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at
least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported
versions build with meson.
Some initial help for postgres developers is at
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson
With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
So far they were created below CacheMemoryContext. However, that's not
guaranteed to exist in all situations, leading to memory contexts created as
top-level contexts. There isn't actually a good reason anymore to create them
below CacheMemoryContext, so just creating them below TopMemoryContext seems
the best approach.
Reported-by: Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@crunchydata.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bdrouvot@amazon.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b948b729-42fe-f88c-2f4a-0e65d84c049b@amazon.com
Backpatch: 15-
Somewhere during the development of the patch acquiring a lock during read
access to variable-numbered stats got lost. The missing lock acquisition won't
cause corruption, but can lead to reading torn values when accessing
stats. Add the missing lock acquisitions.
Reported-by: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bdrouvot@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAM-w4HMYkM_DkYhWtUGV+qE_rrBxKOzOF0+5faozxO3vXrc9wA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 15-
Previously we displayed "DSMFillZeroWrite" while in posix_fallocate(),
because we shared the same wait event for "mmap" and "posix" DSM types.
Let's introduce a new wait event "DSMAllocate", to be more accurate.
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220711174518.yldckniicknsxgzl%40awork3.anarazel.de
That comment might have been true at some point during development, but
definitely isn't anymore.
Reported-By: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Backpatch: 15-
Previously the timer was enabled whenever there were any pending stats after
executing a statement, just to then be disabled again when not idle
anymore. That lead to an increase in GetCurrentTimestamp() calls from within
timeout.c compared to 14.
To avoid that increase, leave the timer enabled until stats are reported,
rather than until idle. The timer is only disabled once the pending stats have
been reported.
For me this fixes the increase in GetCurrentTimestamp() calls, there now are
fewer calls in 15 than in 14, in the previously slowed down workload.
While at it, also update assertion in pgstat_report_stat() to be more precise.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 15-
Previously we didn't, which lead to an assertion failure when resetting
partially loaded statistics. This was encountered on the buildfarm, for
as-of-yet unknown reasons.
Ttighten up a validity check when reading the stats file, verifying 'E'
signals the end of the file (rather than just stopping reading). That's then
used in a test appending to the stats file that crashed before the fix in
pgstat_drop_all_entries().
Reported by buildfarm animals mylodon and kestrel, via Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1656446.1650043715@sss.pgh.pa.us
When not loading stats at startup (i.e. pgstat_discard_stats() getting
called), reset timestamps of fixed numbered stats would be left at
0. Oversight in 5891c7a8ed.
Instead use pgstat_reset_after_failure() and add tests verifying that
fixed-numbered reset timestamps are set appropriately.
Reported-By: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwamFuaQHKdhcMt4Gbw5+Hca2UE741B8gOOXoA=TtAd2Yw@mail.gmail.com
This reverts commits 0147fc7, 4567596, aa64f23, and 5ecd018.
There is no longer agreement that introducing this function
was the right way to address the problem. The consensus now
seems to favor trying to make a correct value for MaxBackends
available to mdules executing their _PG_init() functions.
Nathan Bossart
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220323045229.i23skfscdbvrsuxa@jrouhaud
With nowait passed as false, pgstat_lock_entry() must return true
so there's no need to check its result. Coverity seems unconvinced
of this, so whack it upside the head with a (void) cast.
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
Just after committing 5891c7a8ed, a test running with debug_discard_caches=1
failed locally...
pgstat_drop_relation() neither checked pgstat_should_count_relation() nor
called pgstat_prep_relation_pending(). With debug_discard_caches=1
rel->pgstat_info wasn't set up, leading pg_stat_get_xact_tuples_inserted()
spuriously still returning > 0 while in the transaction dropping the table.
Zeroing out an lwlock in a normal build turns out to not trigger any alarms,
if nobody can use the lwlock at that moment (as the case here). But with
--disable-spinlocks --disable-atomics, the sema field needs to be initialized.
We probably should make sure that this fails on more common configurations as
well...
Per buildfarm animal rorqual
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
Most of pgstat uses pgstat_<verb>_<subject>() or just <verb>_<subject>(). But
not all (some introduced fairly recently by me). Rename ones that aren't
intentionally following a different scheme (e.g. AtEOXact_*).
Previously the pgstat <-> replication slots API was done with on the basis of
names. However, the upcoming move to storing stats in shared memory makes it
more convenient to use a integer as key.
Change the replication slot functions to take the slot rather than the slot
name, and expose ReplicationSlotIndex() to compute the index of an replication
slot. Special handling will be required for restarts, as the index is not
stable across restarts. For now pgstat internally still uses names.
Rename pgstat_report_replslot_{create,drop}() to
pgstat_{create,drop}_replslot() to match the functions for other kinds of
stats.
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220404041516.cctrvpadhuriawlq@alap3.anarazel.de
One problematic part of the current statistics collector design is that there
is no reliable way of getting rid of statistics entries. Because of that
pgstat_vacuum_stat() (called by [auto-]vacuum) matches all stats for the
current database with the catalog contents and tries to drop now-superfluous
entries. That's quite expensive. What's worse, it doesn't work on physical
replicas, despite physical replicas collection statistics entries.
This commit introduces infrastructure to create / drop statistics entries
transactionally, together with the underlying catalog objects (functions,
relations, subscriptions). pgstat_xact.c maintains a list of stats entries
created / dropped transactionally in the current transaction. To ensure the
removal of statistics entries is durable dropped statistics entries are
included in commit / abort (and prepare) records, which also ensures that
stats entries are dropped on standbys.
Statistics entries created separately from creating the underlying catalog
object (e.g. when stats were previously lost due to an immediate restart)
are *not* WAL logged. However that can only happen outside of the transaction
creating the catalog object, so it does not lead to "leaked" statistics
entries.
For this to work, functions creating / dropping functions / relations /
subscriptions need to call into pgstat. For subscriptions this was already
done when dropping subscriptions, via pgstat_report_subscription_drop() (now
renamed to pgstat_drop_subscription()).
This commit does not actually drop stats yet, it just provides the
infrastructure. It is however a largely independent piece of infrastructure,
so committing it separately makes sense.
Bumps XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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
With the introduction of PgStat_Kind PgStat_Single_Reset_Type,
PgStat_Shared_Reset_Target don't make sense anymore. Replace them with
PgStat_Kind.
Instead of having dedicated reset functions for different kinds of stats, use
two generic helper routines (one to reset all stats of a kind, one to reset
one stats entry).
A number of reset functions were named pgstat_reset_*_counter(), despite
affecting multiple counters. The generic helper routines get rid of
pgstat_reset_single_counter(), pgstat_reset_subscription_counter().
Rename pgstat_reset_slru_counter(), pgstat_reset_replslot_counter() to
pgstat_reset_slru(), pgstat_reset_replslot() respectively, and have them only
deal with a single SLRU/slot. Resetting all SLRUs/slots goes through the
generic pgstat_reset_of_kind().
Previously pg_stat_reset_replication_slot() used SearchNamedReplicationSlot()
to check if a slot exists. API wise it seems better to move that to
pgstat_replslot.c.
This is done separately from the - quite large - shared memory statistics
patch to make review easier.
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220404041516.cctrvpadhuriawlq@alap3.anarazel.de
Until now index_concurrently_swap() directly modified pgstat internal
datastructures. That will break with the introduction of shared memory
statistics and seems off architecturally.
This is done separately from the - quite large - shared memory statistics
patch to make review easier.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220303021600.hs34ghqcw6zcokdh@alap3.anarazel.de
Only the pgstat_send_* functions that are called from outside pgstat*.c are
renamed (the rest will go away). This is done separately from the - quite
large - shared memory statistics patch to make review easier.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220404041516.cctrvpadhuriawlq@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
The transactional integration code is largely independent from the rest of
pgstat.c. Subsequent commits will add more related code.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220404041516.cctrvpadhuriawlq@alap3.anarazel.de
Because this strategy logs changes on a block-by-block basis, it
avoids the need to checkpoint before and after the operation.
However, because it logs each changed block individually, it might
generate a lot of extra write-ahead logging if the template database
is large. Therefore, the older strategy remains available via a new
STRATEGY parameter to CREATE DATABASE, and a corresponding --strategy
option to createdb.
Somewhat controversially, this patch assembles the list of relations
to be copied to the new database by reading the pg_class relation of
the template database. Cross-database access like this isn't normally
possible, but it can be made to work here because there can't be any
connections to the database being copied, nor can it contain any
in-doubt transactions. Even so, we have to use lower-level interfaces
than normal, since the table scan and relcache interfaces will not
work for a database to which we're not connected. The advantage of
this approach is that we do not need to rely on the filesystem to
determine what ought to be copied, but instead on PostgreSQL's own
knowledge of the database structure. This avoids, for example,
copying stray files that happen to be located in the source database
directory.
Dilip Kumar, with a fairly large number of cosmetic changes by me.
Reviewed and tested by Ashutosh Sharma, Andres Freund, John Naylor,
Greg Nancarrow, Neha Sharma. Additional feedback from Bruce Momjian,
Heikki Linnakangas, Julien Rouhaud, Adam Brusselback, Kyotaro
Horiguchi, Tomas Vondra, Andrew Dunstan, Álvaro Herrera, and others.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYtcdxBjLh31DLxUXHxFVMPGzrU5_T=CYCvRyFHywSBUQ@mail.gmail.com
pgstat.c is very long, and it's hard to find an order that makes sense and is
likely to be maintained over time. Splitting the different pieces into
separate files makes that a lot easier.
With a few exceptions, this commit just moves code around. Those exceptions
are:
- adding file headers for new files
- removing 'static' from functions
- adapting pgstat_assert_is_up() to work across TUs
- minor comment adjustments
git diff --color-moved=dimmed-zebra is very helpful separating code movement
from code changes.
The next commit in this series will reorder pgstat.[ch] contents to be a bit
more coherent.
Earlier revisions of this patch had "global" statistics (archiver, bgwriter,
checkpointer, replication slots, SLRU, WAL) in one file, because each seemed
small enough. However later commits will increase their size and their
aggregate size is not insubstantial. It also just seems easier to split each
type of statistic into its own file.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220303021600.hs34ghqcw6zcokdh@alap3.anarazel.de
If we run out of space in the checkpointer sync request queue (which is
hopefully rare on real systems, but common with very small buffer pool),
we wait for it to drain. While waiting, we should report that as a wait
event so that users know what is going on, and also handle postmaster
death, since otherwise the loop might never terminate if the
checkpointer has exited.
Back-patch to 12. Although the problem exists in earlier releases too,
the code is structured differently before 12 so I haven't gone any
further for now, in the absence of field complaints.
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220226213942.nb7uvb2pamyu26dj%40alap3.anarazel.de
The checkpointer shouldn't ignore its latch. Other backends may be
waiting for it to drain the request queue. Hopefully real systems don't
have a full queue often, but the condition is reached easily when
shared_buffers is small.
This involves defining a new wait event, which will appear in the
pg_stat_activity view often due to spread checkpoints.
Back-patch only to 14. Even though the problem exists in earlier
branches too, it's hard to hit there. In 14 we stopped using signal
handlers for latches on Linux, *BSD and macOS, which were previously
hiding this problem by interrupting the sleep (though not reliably, as
the signal could arrive before the sleep begins; precisely the problem
latches address).
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220226213942.nb7uvb2pamyu26dj%40alap3.anarazel.de
Previously, it was really easy to write code that accessed MaxBackends
before we'd actually initialized it, especially when coding up an
extension. To make this less error-prune, introduce a new function
GetMaxBackends() which should be used to obtain the correct value.
This will ERROR if called too early. Demote the global variable to
a file-level static, so that nobody can peak at it directly.
Nathan Bossart. Idea by Andres Freund. Review by Greg Sabino Mullane,
by Michael Paquier (who had doubts about the approach), and by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20210802224204.bckcikl45uezv5e4@alap3.anarazel.de
This fixes a set of issues that have accumulated over the past months
(or years) in various code areas. Most fixes are related to some recent
additions, as of the development of v15.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220124030001.GQ23027@telsasoft.com
pg_basebackup now has a --target=TARGET[:DETAIL] option. If specfied,
it is sent to the server as the value of the TARGET option to the
BASE_BACKUP command. If DETAIL is included, it is sent as the value of
the new TARGET_DETAIL option to the BASE_BACKUP command. If the
target is anything other than 'client', pg_basebackup assumes that it
will now be the server's job to write the backup in a location somehow
defined by the target, and that it therefore needs to write nothing
locally. However, the server will still send messages to the client
for progress reporting purposes.
On the server side, we now support two additional types of backup
targets. There is a 'blackhole' target, which just throws away the
backup data without doing anything at all with it. Naturally, this
should only be used for testing and debugging purposes, since you will
not actually have a backup when it finishes running. More usefully,
there is also a 'server' target, so you can now use something like
'pg_basebackup -Xnone -t server:/SOME/PATH' to write a backup to some
location on the server. We can extend this to more types of targets
in the future, and might even want to create an extensibility
mechanism for adding new target types.
Since WAL fetching is handled with separate client-side logic, it's
not part of this mechanism; thus, backups with non-default targets
must use -Xnone or -Xfetch.
Patch by me, with a bug fix by Jeevan Ladhe. The patch set of which
this is a part has also had review and/or testing from Tushar Ahuja,
Suraj Kharage, Dipesh Pandit, and Mark Dilger.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaYZbz0=Yk797aOJwkGJC-LK3iXn+wzzMx7KdwNpZhS5g@mail.gmail.com
Session statistics, as introduced by 960869da08, had several shortcomings:
- an additional GetCurrentTimestamp() call that also impaired the accuracy of
the data collected
This can be avoided by passing the current timestamp we already have in
pgstat_report_stat().
- an additional statistics UDP packet sent every 500ms
This is solved by adding the new statistics to PgStat_MsgTabstat.
This is conceptually ugly, because session statistics are not
table statistics. But the struct already contains data unrelated
to tables, so there is not much damage done.
Connection and disconnection are reported in separate messages, which
reduces the number of additional messages to two messages per session and a
slight increase in PgStat_MsgTabstat size (but the same number of table
stats fit).
- Session time computation could overflow on systems where long is 32 bit.
Reported-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210801205501.nyxzxoelqoo4x2qc%40alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 14-, where the feature was introduced.
Previously log messages late during shutdown could end up using either another
backend's PgBackendStatus (multi user) or segfault (single user) because
pgstat_get_my_query_id()'s check for !MyBEEntry didn't filter out use after
pgstat_beshutdown_hook().
This became a bug in 4f0b0966c8, but was a bit fishy before. But given
there's no known problematic cases before 14, it doesn't seem worth
backpatching further.
Also fixes a wrong filename in a comment, introduced in e1025044.
Reported-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Backpatch: 14-
This has the advantage to make a process more responsive when the
postmaster dies, even if the wait time was rather limited as there was
only a 50ms timeout here. Another advantage of this change is for
monitoring, as we gain a new wait event for the end-of-vacuum
truncation.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev, Thomas Munro, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACU4AdPCq6NLfcA-ZGwX7pPCK5FgEj-CAU0xCKzkASSy_A@mail.gmail.com
Also "make reformat-dat-files".
The only change worthy of note is that pgindent messed up the formatting
of launcher.c's struct LogicalRepWorkerId, which led me to notice that
that struct wasn't used at all anymore, so I just took it out.
log_statement is issued before query_id can be computed, so properly
clear the value, and document the interaction.
Reported-by: Fujii Masao, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YHPkU8hFi4no4NSw@paquier.xyz
Author: Julien Rouhaud
Previously, it was pg_stat_activity.queryid to match the
pg_stat_statements queryid column. This is an adjustment to patch
4f0b0966c8. This also adjusts some of the internal function calls to
match. Catversion bumped.
Reported-by: Álvaro Herrera, Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210408032704.GA7498@alvherre.pgsql
This adds a function, pg_wait_for_backend_termination(), and a new
timeout argument to pg_terminate_backend(), which will wait for the
backend to actually terminate (with or without signaling it to do so
depending on which function is called). The default behaviour of
pg_terminate_backend() remains being timeout=0 which does not waiting.
For pg_wait_for_backend_termination() the default wait is 5 seconds.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-By: Fujii Masao, David Johnston, Muhammad Usama,
Hou Zhijie, Magnus Hagander
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACUBpunmyhYZw-kXCYs5NM+h6oG_7Df_Tn4mLmmUQifkqA@mail.gmail.com
Use the in-core query id computation for pg_stat_activity,
log_line_prefix, and EXPLAIN VERBOSE.
Similar to other fields in pg_stat_activity, only the queryid from the
top level statements are exposed, and if the backends status isn't
active then the queryid from the last executed statements is displayed.
Add a %Q placeholder to include the queryid in log_line_prefix, which
will also only expose top level statements.
For EXPLAIN VERBOSE, if a query identifier has been computed, either by
enabling compute_query_id or using a third-party module, display it.
Bump catalog version.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210407125726.tkvjdbw76hxnpwfi@nol
Author: Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Nitin Jadhav, Zhihong Yu
pgstat_report_wait_start() and pgstat_report_wait_end() required two
conditional branches so far. One to check if MyProc is NULL, the other to
check if pgstat_track_activities is set. As wait events are used around
comparatively lightweight operations, and are inlined (reducing branch
predictor effectiveness), that's not great.
The dependency on MyProc has a second disadvantage: Low-level subsystems, like
storage/file/fd.c, report wait events, but architecturally it is preferable
for them to not depend on inter-process subsystems like proc.h (defining
PGPROC). After this change including pgstat.h (nor obviously its
sub-components like backend_status.h, wait_event.h, ...) does not pull in IPC
related headers anymore.
These goals, efficiency and abstraction, are achieved by having
pgstat_report_wait_start/end() not interact with MyProc, but instead a new
my_wait_event_info variable. At backend startup it points to a local variable,
removing the need to check for MyProc being NULL. During process
initialization my_wait_event_info is redirected to MyProc->wait_event_info. At
shutdown this is reversed. Because wait event reporting now does not need to
know about where the wait event is stored, it does not need to know about
PGPROC anymore.
The removal of the branch for checking pgstat_track_activities is simpler:
Don't check anymore. The cost due to the branch are often higher than the
store - and even if not, pgstat_track_activities is rarely disabled.
The main motivator to commit this work now is that removing the (indirect)
pgproc.h include from pgstat.h simplifies a patch to move statistics reporting
to shared memory (which still has a chance to get into 14).
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210402194458.2vu324hkk2djq6ce@alap3.anarazel.de
Backend status (supporting pg_stat_activity) and command
progress (supporting pg_stat_progress*) related code is largely
independent from the rest of pgstat.[ch] (supporting views like
pg_stat_all_tables that accumulate data over time). See also
a333476b92.
This commit doesn't rename the function names to make the distinction
from the rest of pgstat_ clearer - that'd be more invasive and not
clearly beneficial. If we were to decide to do such a rename at some
point, it's better done separately from moving the code as well.
Robert's review was of an earlier version.
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210316195440.twxmlov24rr2nxrg@alap3.anarazel.de
The wait event related code is independent from the rest of the
pgstat.[ch] code, of nontrivial size and changes on a regular
basis. Put it into its own set of files.
As there doesn't seem to be a good pre-existing directory for code
like this, add src/backend/utils/activity.
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210316195440.twxmlov24rr2nxrg@alap3.anarazel.de
John Naylor
Robert Haas
Michael Paquier
Andres Freund
David Rowley
Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane
Thomas Munro
Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian
Fujii Masao
Amit Kapila
Magnus Hagander