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This should silence Coverity's complaints about the result being
sometimes ignored.
I'm inclined to think that these routines are simply misdesigned,
because sometimes it's okay to ignore the result and sometimes it
isn't, and we have no way to enforce the latter. But for now
I just added a comment.
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Allow multiple backends to initialize WAL buffers concurrently. This way
`MemSet((char *) NewPage, 0, XLOG_BLCKSZ);` can run in parallel without
taking a single LWLock in exclusive mode.
The new algorithm works as follows:
* reserve a page for initialization using XLogCtl->InitializeReserved,
* ensure the page is written out,
* once the page is initialized, try to advance XLogCtl->InitializedUpTo and
signal to waiters using XLogCtl->InitializedUpToCondVar condition
variable,
* repeat previous steps until we reserve initialization up to the target
WAL position,
* wait until concurrent initialization finishes using a
XLogCtl->InitializedUpToCondVar.
Now, multiple backends can, in parallel, concurrently reserve pages,
initialize them, and advance XLogCtl->InitializedUpTo to point to the latest
initialized page.
Author: Yura Sokolov <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Tested-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
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For AIO we execute completion callbacks in critical sections (to ensure that
AIO can in the future be used for WAL, which in turn requires that we can call
completion callbacks in critical sections, to get the resources for WAL
io). To report checksum errors a backend now has to call
pgstat_prepare_report_checksum_failure(), before entering a critical section,
which guarantees the relevant pgstats entry is in shared memory, the relevant
DSM segment is mapped into the backend's memory and the address is known via a
PgStat_EntryRef.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/wkjj4p2rmkevutkwc6tewoovdqznj6c6nvjmvii4oo5wmbh5sr@retq7d6uqs4j
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Checksum failure stats could be attributed to the wrong database in two cases:
- when a read of a shared relation encountered a checksum error , it would be
attributed to the current database, instead of the "database" representing
shared relations
- when using CREATE DATABASE ... STRATEGY WAL_LOG checksum errors in the
source database would be attributed to the current database
The checksum stats reporting via PageIsVerifiedExtended(PIV_REPORT_STAT) does
not have access to the information about what database a page belongs to.
This fixes the issue by removing PIV_REPORT_STAT and delegating the
responsibility to report stats to the caller, which now can learn about the
number of stats via a new optional argument.
As this changes the signature of PageIsVerifiedExtended() and all callers
should adapt to the new signature, use the occasion to rename the function to
PageIsVerified() and remove the compatibility macro.
We could instead have fixed this by adding information about the database to
the args of PageIsVerified(), but there are soon-to-be-applied patches that
need to separate the stats reporting from the PageIsVerified() call
anyway. Those patches also include testing for the failure paths, something we
inexplicably have not had.
As there is no caller of pgstat_report_checksum_failure() left, remove it.
It'd be possible, but awkward to fix this in the back branches. We considered
doing the work not quite worth it, as mis-attributed stats should still elicit
concern. The emitted error messages do allow to attribute the errors
correctly.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5tyic6epvdlmd6eddgelv47syg2b5cpwffjam54axp25xyq2ga@ptwkinxqo3az
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/mglpvvbhighzuwudjxzu4br65qqcxsnyvio3nl4fbog3qknwhg@e4gt7npsohuz
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Continuation of work started in commit 15a79c73, after initial trial.
Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b936d2fb-590d-49c3-a615-92c3a88c6c19%40eisentraut.org
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Performing AIO using io_uring can be considerably faster than
io_method=worker, particularly when lots of small IOs are issued, as
a) the context-switch overhead for worker based AIO becomes more significant
b) the number of IO workers can become limiting
io_uring, however, is linux specific and requires an additional compile-time
dependency (liburing).
This implementation is fairly simple and there are substantial optimization
opportunities.
The description of the existing AIO_IO_COMPLETION wait event is updated to
make the difference between it and the new AIO_IO_URING_EXECUTION clearer.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210223100344.llw5an2aklengrmn@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/stj36ea6yyhoxtqkhpieia2z4krnam7qyetc57rfezgk4zgapf@gcnactj4z56m
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This field can be optionally set in a PlannedStmt through the planner
hook, giving extensions the possibility to assign an identifier related
to a computed plan. The backend is changed to report it in the backend
entry of a process running (including the extended query protocol), with
semantics and APIs to set or get it similar to what is used for the
existing query ID (introduced in the backend via 4f0b0966c8). The plan
ID is reset at the same timing as the query ID. Currently, this
information is not added to the system view pg_stat_activity; extensions
can access it through PgBackendStatus.
Some patches have been proposed to provide some features in the planning
area, where a plan identifier is used as a key to know the plan involved
(for statistics, plan storage and manipulations, etc.), and the point of
this commit is to provide an anchor in the backend that extensions can
rely on for future work. The reset of the plan identifier is
controlled by core and follows the same pattern as the query identifier
added in 4f0b0966c8.
The contents of this commit are extracted from a larger set proposed
originally by Lukas Fittl, that Sami Imseih has proposed as an
independent change, with a few tweaks sprinkled by me.
Author: Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com>
Author: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP53Pkyow59ajFMHGpmb1BK9WHDypaWtUsS_5DoYUEfsa_Hktg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA5RZ0vyWd4r35uUBUmhngv8XqeiJUkJDDKkLf5LCoWxv-t_pw@mail.gmail.com
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Autovacuum launchers perform no WAL IO reads, but pgstat_tracks_io_op()
was tracking them as an allowed combination for the "init" and "normal"
contexts.
This caused the "read", "read_bytes" and "read_time" attributes of
pg_stat_io to show zeros for the autovacuum launcher rather than NULL.
NULL means that a combination of IO object, IO context and IO operation
has no meaning for a backend type. Zero is the same as telling that a
combination is relevant, and that WAL reads are possible in an
autovacuum launcher, but it is not relevant.
Copy-pasto introduced in a051e71e28a1.
Author: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAopEMAPiUqE7BvDV+x2fUPmKmb9RrsaoDR+hhQzLKg4PQ@mail.gmail.com
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This commit changes the backend stats code so as we rely on a single
boolean rather than a repeated check based on pg_memory_is_all_zeros()
in the code, making it cheaper should PgStat_PendingIO get bigger in
size.
The frequency of backend stats reports is not a bottleneck, but there is
no reason to not make that cheaper, and the logic is simple as the only
entry points updating backend IO stats are pgstat_count_backend_io_op()
and pgstat_count_backend_io_op_time().
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z8WYf1jyy4MwOveQ@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
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The previous commit introduced the infrastructure to start io_workers. This
commit actually makes the workers execute IOs.
IO workers consume IOs from a shared memory submission queue, run traditional
synchronous system calls, and perform the shared completion handling
immediately. Client code submits most requests by pushing IOs into the
submission queue, and waits (if necessary) using condition variables. Some
IOs cannot be performed in another process due to lack of infrastructure for
reopening the file, and must processed synchronously by the client code when
submitted.
For now the default io_method is changed to "worker". We should re-evaluate
that around beta1, we might want to be careful and set the default to "sync"
for 18.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210223100344.llw5an2aklengrmn@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/stj36ea6yyhoxtqkhpieia2z4krnam7qyetc57rfezgk4zgapf@gcnactj4z56m
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This commit contains the basic, system-wide, infrastructure for
io_method=worker. It does not yet actually execute IO, this commit just
provides the infrastructure for running IO workers, kept separate for easier
review.
The number of IO workers can be adjusted with a PGC_SIGHUP GUC. Eventually
we'd like to make the number of workers dynamically scale up/down based on the
current "IO load".
To allow the number of IO workers to be increased without a restart, we need
to reserve PGPROC entries for the workers unconditionally. This has been
judged to be worth the cost. If it turns out to be problematic, we can
introduce a PGC_POSTMASTER GUC to control the maximum number.
As io workers might be needed during shutdown, e.g. for AIO during the
shutdown checkpoint, a new PMState phase is added. IO workers are shut down
after the shutdown checkpoint has been performed and walsender/archiver have
shut down, but before the checkpointer itself shuts down. See also
87a6690cc69.
Updates PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID due to the addition of a new BackendType.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210223100344.llw5an2aklengrmn@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/stj36ea6yyhoxtqkhpieia2z4krnam7qyetc57rfezgk4zgapf@gcnactj4z56m
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The main motivations to use AIO in PostgreSQL are:
a) Reduce the time spent waiting for IO by issuing IO sufficiently early.
In a few places we have approximated this using posix_fadvise() based
prefetching, but that is fairly limited (no completion feedback, double the
syscalls, only works with buffered IO, only works on some OSs).
b) Allow to use Direct-I/O (DIO).
DIO can offload most of the work for IO to hardware and thus increase
throughput / decrease CPU utilization, as well as reduce latency. While we
have gained the ability to configure DIO in d4e71df6, it is not yet usable
for real world workloads, as every IO is executed synchronously.
For portability, the new AIO infrastructure allows to implement AIO using
different methods. The choice of the AIO method is controlled by the new
io_method GUC. As of this commit, the only implemented method is "sync",
i.e. AIO is not actually executed asynchronously. The "sync" method exists to
allow to bypass most of the new code initially.
Subsequent commits will introduce additional IO methods, including a
cross-platform method implemented using worker processes and a linux specific
method using io_uring.
To allow different parts of postgres to use AIO, the core AIO infrastructure
does not need to know what kind of files it is operating on. The necessary
behavioral differences for different files are abstracted as "AIO
Targets". One example target would be smgr. For boring portability reasons,
all targets currently need to be added to an array in aio_target.c. This
commit does not implement any AIO targets, just the infrastructure for
them. The smgr target will be added in a later commit.
Completion (and other events) of IOs for one type of file (i.e. one AIO
target) need to be reacted to differently, based on the IO operation and the
callsite. This is made possible by callbacks that can be registered on
IOs. E.g. an smgr read into a local buffer does not need to update the
corresponding BufferDesc (as there is none), but a read into shared buffers
does. This commit does not contain any callbacks, they will be added in
subsequent commits.
For now the AIO infrastructure only understands READV and WRITEV operations,
but it is expected that more operations will be added. E.g. fsync/fdatasync,
flush_range and network operations like send/recv.
As of this commit, nothing uses the AIO infrastructure. Later commits will add
an smgr target, md.c and bufmgr.c callbacks and then finally use AIO for
read_stream.c IO, which, in one fell swoop, will convert all read stream users
to AIO.
The goal is to use AIO in many more places. There are patches to use AIO for
checkpointer and bgwriter that are reasonably close to being ready. There also
are prototypes to use it for WAL, relation extension, backend writes and many
more. Those prototypes were important to ensure the design of the AIO
subsystem is not too limiting (e.g. WAL writes need to happen in critical
sections, which influenced a lot of the design).
A future commit will add an AIO README explaining the AIO architecture and how
to use the AIO subsystem. The README is added later, as it references details
only added in later commits.
Many many more people than the folks named below have contributed with
feedback, work on semi-independent patches etc. E.g. various folks have
contributed patches to use the read stream infrastructure (added by Thomas in
b5a9b18cd0b) in more places. Similarly, a *lot* of folks have contributed to
the CI infrastructure, which I had started to work on to make adding AIO
feasible.
Some of the work by contributors has gone into the "v1" prototype of AIO,
which heavily influenced the current design of the AIO subsystem. None of the
code from that directly survives, but without the prototype, the current
version of the AIO infrastructure would not exist.
Similarly, the reviewers below have not necessarily looked at the current
design or the whole infrastructure, but have provided very valuable input. I
am to blame for problems, not they.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210223100344.llw5an2aklengrmn@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/stj36ea6yyhoxtqkhpieia2z4krnam7qyetc57rfezgk4zgapf@gcnactj4z56m
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This reverts commit b860848232aa, that was added as a prerequisite for
the support of pgstats data flush across checkpoints, linking a pgstats
file to a specific checkpoint redo LSN.
As reported, this is proving to be currently problematic when going
through a pg_upgrade, that does direct manipulations of the control file
in the new cluster. The LSN stored in the pgstats file is not able to
cope with any changes done in the control file by pg_upgrade yet,
causing the pgstats file to be discarded when starting the new cluster
after overriding its redo LSN (one is a `pg_resetwal -l` where the new
cluster's start LSN is bumped by a hardcoded value of 8 segments, see
copy_xact_xlog_xid).
The least painful path going forward is likely going to be a refactor of
the pgstats code so as it is possible to read and write some of its data
with some routines in src/common/, so as pg_upgrade or pg_resetwal are
able to update its data. The main point is that we are going to need a
LSN in the stats file should we make it written at checkpoint time and
not only as part of a shutdown sequence. It is too late to dive into
these details for v18, so let's revert the change, and let's try to
figure out all the details in the next release cycle. The pgstats file
is currently only written as part of a shutdown sequence, and its
contents are still lost on crash, same as older releases.
Bump PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID.
Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2563883.1741826489@sss.pgh.pa.us
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9a8dd2c5a6d has added an initialization to PendingBackendStats, which
has been causing compilation warnings in the buildfarm. This code does
not strictly require it as PendingBackendStats is always initialized
with memset(0), so let's remove it.
Per report from multiple buildfarm members, like ayu and batfish, via
Tom Lane.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1870853.1741749264@sss.pgh.pa.us
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This commit adds per-backend WAL statistics, providing the same
information as pg_stat_wal, except that it is now possible to know how
much WAL activity is happening in each backend rather than an overall
aggregate of all the activity. Like pg_stat_wal, the implementation
relies on pgWalUsage, tracking the difference of activity between two
reports to pgstats.
This data can be retrieved with a new system function called
pg_stat_get_backend_wal(), that returns one tuple based on the PID
provided in input. Like pg_stat_get_backend_io(), this is useful when
joined with pg_stat_activity to get a live picture of the WAL generated
for each running backend, showing how the activity is [un]balanced.
pgstat_flush_backend() gains a new flag value, able to control the flush
of the WAL stats.
This commit relies mostly on the infrastructure provided by
9aea73fc61d4, that has introduced backend statistics.
Bump catalog version. A bump of PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID is not required,
as backend stats do not persist on disk.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z3zqc4o09dM/Ezyz@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
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Teach parallel nbtree index scans to use an LWLock (not a spinlock) to
protect the scan's shared descriptor state.
Preparation for an upcoming patch that will add skip scan optimizations
to nbtree. That patch will create the need to occasionally allocate
memory while the scan descriptor is locked, while copying datums that
were serialized by another backend.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=PKR6rB7qbx+Vnd7eqeB5VTcrW=iJvAsTsKbdG+kW_UA@mail.gmail.com
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The callback pgstat_backend_have_pending_cb() is used as a way for
pg_stat_report() to detect if there is any pending data for backend
statistics.
It did not include a check based on pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(), that
discards processes whose backend types do not support backend
statistics. The logic is not a problem on HEAD, as processes that do
not support backend statistics cannot touch PendingBackendStats, so the
callback would always report that there is no pending data in this case.
However, we would run into trouble once backend statistics include
portions of pending stats that are not always zeroed, like pgWalUsage.
There is no reason for pgstat_backend_have_pending_cb() to not check
for pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(), anyway, and this pattern is safer in
the long run, so let's update the code to do so.
While on it, this commit adds a proper initialization to
PendingBackendStats.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z8l6EMM4ImVoWRkg@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
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The WAL receiver and WAL summarizer processes gain each one a call to
pgstat_report_wal(), to make sure that they report their WAL statistics
to pgstats, gathering data for pg_stat_io.
In the WAL receiver, the stats reports are timed with status updates sent
to the primary, that depend on wal_receiver_status_interval and
wal_receiver_timeout. This is a conservative choice, but perhaps we
could be more aggressive with the frequency of the stats reports. An
interesting historical fact is that the WAL receiver does writes and
syncs of WAL, but it has never reported its statistics to pgstats in
pg_stat_wal.
In the WAL summarizer, the stats reports are done each time the process
waits for WAL.
While on it, pg_stat_io is adjusted so as these two processes do not
report any rows when IOObject is not WAL, making the view easier to use
with less rows.
Two tests are added in TAP, checking statistics for the WAL summarizer
and the WAL receiver. Status updates in the WAL receiver are currently
possible in the recovery test 001_stream_rep.pl.
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z8UKZyVSHUUQJHNb@paquier.xyz
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pgstat_bestart(), used post-authentication to set up a backend entry
in the PgBackendStatus array, so as its data becomes visible in
pg_stat_activity and related catalogs, has its logic divided into three
routines with this commit, called in order at different steps of the
backend initialization:
* pgstat_bestart_initial() sets up the backend entry with a minimal
amount of information, reporting it with a new BackendState called
STATE_STARTING while waiting for backend initialization and client
authentication to complete. The main benefit that this offers is
observability, so as it is possible to monitor the backend activity
during authentication. This step happens earlier than in the logic
prior to this commit. pgstat_beinit() happens earlier as well, before
authentication.
* pgstat_bestart_security() reports the SSL/GSS status of the
connection, once authentication completes. Auxiliary processes, for
example, do not need to call this step, hence it is optional. This
step is called after performing authentication, same as previously.
* pgstat_bestart_final() reports the user and database IDs, takes the
entry out of STATE_STARTING, and reports its application_name. This is
called as the last step of the three, once authentication completes.
An injection point is added, with a test checking that the "starting"
phase of a backend entry is visible in pg_stat_activity. Some follow-up
patches are planned to take advantage of this refactoring with more
information provided in backend entries during authentication (LDAP
hanging was a problem for the author, initially).
Author: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOYmi+=60deN20WDyCoHCiecgivJxr=98s7s7-C8SkXwrCfHXg@mail.gmail.com
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This commit impacts the following SQL functions, authorizing the access
to the PGPROC entries of auxiliary processes when attempting to fetch or
reset backend-level pgstats entries:
- pg_stat_reset_backend_stats()
- pg_stat_get_backend_io()
This is relevant since a051e71e28a1 for at least the WAL summarizer, WAL
receiver and WAL writer processes, that has changed the backend
statistics to authorize these three following the addition of WAL I/O
statistics in pg_stat_io and backend statistics. The code is more
flexible with future changes written this way, adapting automatically to
any updates done in pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype().
While on it, pgstat_report_wal() gains a call to pgstat_flush_backend(),
making sure that backend I/O statistics are updated when calling this
routine. This makes the statistics report correctly for the WAL writer.
WAL receiver and WAL summarizer do not call pgstat_report_wal() yet
(spoiler: both should). It should be possible to lift some of the
existing restrictions for other auxiliary processes, as well, but this
is left as future work.
Reported-by: Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90@gmail.com>
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2L28v9BwN8_y0k6FQ591=0g2Hj_esHLGj3bP38c9nmVykoiA@mail.gmail.com
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This code is extracted from pg_stat_get_backend_io() in pgstatfuncs.c,
so as it can be shared with other areas that need backend pgstats
entries while having the benefits of the various sanity checks
refactored here. As per its name, this retrieves backend statistics
based on a PID, with the option of retrieving a BackendType if given in
input.
Currently, this is used for the backend-level IO statistics. The next
move would be to reuse that for the backend-level WAL statistics.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z3zqc4o09dM/Ezyz@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
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This new structure contains the counters and the data related to the WAL
activity statistics gathered from WalUsage, separated into its own
structure so as it can be shared across more than one Stats structure in
pg_stat.h.
This refactoring will be used by an upcoming patch introducing
backend-level WAL statistics.
Bump PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z3zqc4o09dM/Ezyz@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
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All the processes that generate WAL should call pgstat_report_wal() to
report all their statistics related to WAL, and this is already what
happens in the tree. Keeping pgstat_report_wal() is confusing while the
other routine is encouraged.
This routine is not required since fc415edf8ca8, where it was lastly
used in pgstat_report_stat() before an equivalent callback existed.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z71oPkJJICrRB5Ws@paquier.xyz
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This commit is a rework of 2421e9a51d20, about which Andres Freund has
raised some concerns as it is valuable to have both track_io_timing and
track_wal_io_timing in some cases, as the WAL write and fsync paths can
be a major bottleneck for some workloads. Hence, it can be relevant to
not calculate the WAL timings in environments where pg_test_timing
performs poorly while capturing some IO data under track_io_timing for
the non-WAL IO paths. The opposite can be also true: it should be
possible to disable the non-WAL timings and enable the WAL timings (the
previous GUC setups allowed this possibility).
track_wal_io_timing is added back in this commit, controlling if WAL
timings should be calculated in pg_stat_io for the read, fsync and write
paths, as done previously with pg_stat_wal. pg_stat_wal previously
tracked only the sync and write parts (now removed), read stats is new
data tracked in pg_stat_io, all three are aggregated if
track_wal_io_timing is enabled. The read part matters during recovery
or if a XLogReader is used.
Extra note: more control over if the types of timings calculated in
pg_stat_io could be done with a GUC that lists pairs of (IOObject,IOOp).
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3opf2wh2oljco6ldyqf7ukabw3jijnnhno6fjb4mlu6civ5h24@fcwmhsgmlmzu
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The four following attributes are removed from pg_stat_wal:
* wal_write
* wal_sync
* wal_write_time
* wal_sync_time
a051e71e28a1 has added an equivalent of this information in pg_stat_io
with more granularity as this now spreads across the backend types, IO
context and IO objects. So, keeping the same information in pg_stat_wal
has little benefits.
Another benefit of this commit is the removal of PendingWalStats,
simplifying an upcoming patch to add per-backend WAL statistics, which
already support IO statistics and which have access to the write/sync
stats data of WAL.
The GUC track_wal_io_timing, that was used to enable or disable the
aggregation of the write and sync timings for WAL, is also removed.
pgstat_prepare_io_time() is simplified.
Bump catalog version.
Bump PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID, due to the update of PgStat_WalStats.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z7RkQ0EfYaqqjgz/@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
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This commit reverts 6a2275b895. Buildfarm failure on batta spots some
concurrency issue, which requires further investigation.
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wal_buffers_full has been introduced in pg_stat_wal in 8d9a935965f, as
some information providing metrics for the tuning of the GUC
wal_buffers. WalUsage has been introduced before that in df3b181499.
Moving this field is proving to be beneficial for several reasons:
- This information can now be made available in more layers, providing
more granularity than just pg_stat_wal, on a per-query basis: EXPLAIN,
pgss and VACUUM/ANALYZE logs.
- A patch is under discussion to provide statistics for WAL at backend
level, and this move simplifies a bit the handling of pending
statistics. The remaining data in PgStat_PendingWalStats now relates to
write/sync counters and times, with equivalents present in pg_stat_io,
that backend statistics are able to already track. So this should cut
all the dependencies between PgStat_PendingWalStats and WAL stats at
backend level.
As of this change, wal_buffers_full only shows in pg_stat_wal.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Ilia Evdokimov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z6SOha5YFFgvpwQY@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
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Allow multiple backends to initialize WAL buffers concurrently. This way
`MemSet((char *) NewPage, 0, XLOG_BLCKSZ);` can run in parallel without
taking a single LWLock in exclusive mode.
The new algorithm works as follows:
* reserve a page for initialization using XLogCtl->InitializeReserved,
* ensure the page is written out,
* once the page is initialized, try to advance XLogCtl->InitializedUpTo and
signal to waiters using XLogCtl->InitializedUpToCondVar condition
variable,
* repeat previous steps until we reserve initialization up to the target
WAL position,
* wait until concurrent initialization finishes using a
XLogCtl->InitializedUpToCondVar.
Now, multiple backends can, in parallel, concurrently reserve pages,
initialize them, and advance XLogCtl->InitializedUpTo to point to the latest
initialized page.
Author: Yura Sokolov <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>
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Remove (char *) casts around memory functions such as memcmp(),
memcpy(), or memset() where the cast is useless. Since these
functions don't take char * arguments anyway, these casts are at best
complicated casts to (void *), about which see commit 7f798aca1d5.
Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/fd1fcedb-3492-4fc8-9e3e-74b97f2db6c7%40eisentraut.org
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Remove (char *) casts around string functions where the arguments or
result already have the right type and the cast is useless (or worse,
potentially casts away a qualifier, but this doesn't appear to be the
case here).
Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/fd1fcedb-3492-4fc8-9e3e-74b97f2db6c7%40eisentraut.org
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This commit adds WAL IO stats to both pg_stat_io view and per-backend IO
statistics (pg_stat_get_backend_io()). This change is possible since
f92c854cf406, as WAL IO is not counted in blocks in some code paths
where its stats data is measured (like WAL read in xlogreader.c).
IOContext gains IOCONTEXT_INIT and IOObject IOOBJECT_WAL, with the
following combinations allowed:
- IOOBJECT_WAL/IOCONTEXT_NORMAL is used to track I/O operations done on
already-created WAL segments.
- IOOBJECT_WAL/IOCONTEXT_INIT is used for tracking I/O operations done
when initializing WAL segments.
The core changes are done in pg_stat_io.c, backend statistics inherit
them. Backend statistics and pg_stat_io are now available for the WAL
writer, the WAL receiver and the WAL summarizer processes.
I/O timing data is controlled by the GUC track_io_timing, like the
existing data of pg_stat_io for consistency. The timings related to
IOOBJECT_WAL show up if the GUC is enabled (disabled by default).
Bump pgstats file version, due to the additions in IOObject and
IOContext, impacting the amount of data written for the fixed-numbered
IO stats kind in the pgstats file.
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Nitin Jadhav, Amit Kapila, Michael
Paquier, Melanie Plageman, Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN55FZ3AiQ+ZMxUuXnBpd0Rrh1YhwJ5FudkHg=JU0P+-W8T4Vg@mail.gmail.com
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This commit adds more documentation to pgstat_count_io_op_time() in
pgstat_io.c, explaining its internals for pgstat_count_buffer_*(),
pgBufferUsage and the contexts where these are used.
Extracted from a larger patch by the same author.
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN55FZ3AiQ+ZMxUuXnBpd0Rrh1YhwJ5FudkHg=JU0P+-W8T4Vg@mail.gmail.com
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This allows users of the cumulative statistics to drop entries in the
shared hash stats table, deleting as well local references. Callers of
this function can optionally define a callback able to filter which
entries to drop, similarly to pgstat_reset_matching_entries() with its
callback do_reset().
pgstat_drop_all_entries() is refactored so as it uses this new function.
Author: Lukas Fitti
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP53PkwuFbo3NkwZgxwNRMjMfqPEqidD-SggaoQ4ijotBVLJAA@mail.gmail.com
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This commit adds four fields to the statistics of relations, aggregating
the amount of time spent for each operation on a relation:
- total_vacuum_time, for manual vacuum.
- total_autovacuum_time, for vacuum done by the autovacuum daemon.
- total_analyze_time, for manual analyze.
- total_autoanalyze_time, for analyze done by the autovacuum daemon.
This gives users the option to derive the average time spent for these
operations with the help of the related "count" fields.
Bump catalog version (for the catalog changes) and PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID
(for the additions in PgStat_StatTabEntry).
Author: Sami Imseih
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA5RZ0uVOGBYmPEeGF2d1B_67tgNjKx_bKDuL+oUftuoz+=Y1g@mail.gmail.com
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The main motivation for this change is to have a process that can serialize
stats after all other processes have terminated. Serializing stats already
happens in checkpointer, even though walsenders can be active longer.
The only reason the current shutdown sequence does not actively cause problems
is that walsender currently does not generate any stats. However, there is an
upcoming patch changing that.
Another need for this change originates in the AIO patchset, where IO
workers (which, in some edge cases, can emit stats of their own) need to run
while the shutdown checkpoint is being written.
This commit changes the shutdown sequence so checkpointer is signalled (via
SIGINT) to trigger writing the shutdown checkpoint without also causing
checkpointer to exit. Once checkpointer wrote the shutdown checkpoint it
notifies postmaster via PMSIGNAL_XLOG_IS_SHUTDOWN and waits for the
termination signal (SIGUSR2, as before). Checkpointer now is terminated after
all children, other than dead-end children and logger, have been terminated,
tracked using the new PM_WAIT_CHECKPOINTER PMState.
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/kgng5nrvnlv335evmsuvpnh354rw7qyazl73kdysev2cr2v5zu@m3cfzxicm5kp
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9aea73fc61d4 has added support for backend statistics, relying on
PgStat_EntryRef->pending for its data pending for flush. This design
lacks in flexibility, because the pending list does some memory
allocation, making it unsuitable if incrementing counters in critical
sections.
Pending data of backend statistics is reworked so the implementation
does not depend on PgStat_EntryRef->pending anymore, relying on a static
area of memory to store the counters that are flushed when stats are
reported to the pgstats dshash. An advantage of this approach is to
allow the pending data to be manipulated in critical sections; some
patches are under discussion and require that.
The pending data is tracked by PendingBackendStats, local to
pgstat_backend.c. Two routines are introduced to allow IO statistics to
update the backend-side counters. have_static_pending_cb and
flush_static_cb are used for the flush, instead of flush_pending_cb.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/66efowskppsns35v5u2m7k4sdnl7yoz5bo64tdjwq7r5lhplrz@y7dme5xwh2r5
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The two callbacks have_fixed_pending_cb and flush_fixed_cb have been
introduced in fc415edf8ca8 to provide a way for fixed-numbered
statistics to control the flush of their data. These are renamed to
respectively have_static_pending_cb and flush_static_cb. The
restriction that these only apply to fixed-numbered stats is removed.
A follow-up patch will make use of them for backend statistics. This
stats kind is variable-numbered, and patches are under discussion to
track WAL data for IO and backend stats which cannot use
PgStat_EntryRef->pending as pending data would be touched in critical
sections, where no memory allocation can happen.
Per discussion with Andres Freund.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/66efowskppsns35v5u2m7k4sdnl7yoz5bo64tdjwq7r5lhplrz@y7dme5xwh2r5
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As written, it was triggering a compilation warning for old versions of
clang, as reported by buildfarm members ayu, batfish and demoiselle.
Forcing a cast with "unsigned int" should fix the warning.
While on it, the macro is moved to pgstat.h, closer to the declaration
of IOOp, per suggestion from Tom Lane.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Tom Lane, Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1272824.1736961543@sss.pgh.pa.us
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An equivalent check is done with pgstat_is_ioop_tracked_in_bytes(), so
there is no need for this extra one. Small cleanup that should have
been included in f92c854cf406.
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN55FZ0oqxBaaHAEsj=xFqkzE3n5P=3RA1V_igXwL-RV7QRzyw@mail.gmail.com
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Currently in pg_stat_io view, IOs are counted as blocks of size
BLCKSZ. There are two limitations with this design:
* The actual number of I/O requests sent to the kernel is lower because
I/O requests may be merged before being sent. Additionally, it gives
the impression that all I/Os are done in block size, which shadows the
benefits of merging I/O requests.
* Some patches are under work to extend pg_stat_io for the tracking of
operations that may not be linked to the block size. For example, WAL
read IOs are done in variable bytes and it is not possible to correctly
show these IOs in pg_stat_io view, and we want to keep all this data in
a single system view rather than spread it across multiple relations to
ease monitoring.
WaitReadBuffers() can now be tracked as a single read operation
worth N blocks. Same for ExtendBufferedRelShared() and
ExtendBufferedRelLocal() for extensions.
Three columns are added to pg_stat_io for reads, writes and extensions
for the byte calculations. op_bytes, which was always hardcoded to
BLCKSZ, is removed. IO backend statistics are updated to reflect these
changes.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Melanie Plageman
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN55FZ0oqxBaaHAEsj=xFqkzE3n5P=3RA1V_igXwL-RV7QRzyw@mail.gmail.com
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The pgstat_count_io_op() function, which counts a single I/O operation,
wraps pgstat_count_io_op_n() with a counter value of 1. The latter is
declared in pgstat.h and used nowhere in the code, so let's remove it in
favor of the former.
This change makes also the code more symmetric with
pgstat_count_io_op_time(), that already uses a similar set of arguments,
except that it counts also the I/O time. This will ease a bit the
integration of a follow-up patch that adds byte-level tracking in
pg_stat_io for some of its attributes, lifting the current restriction
based on BLCKSZ as all I/O operations are assumed to be block-based.
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN55FZ32ze812=yjyZg1QeXhKvACUM_Nu0_gyPQcUKKuVHL5xA@mail.gmail.com
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This commit changes the way pending backend statistics are tracked by
moving them into a new structure called PgStat_BackendPending, removing
PgStat_BackendPendingIO. PgStat_BackendPending currently only includes
PgStat_PendingIO for the pending I/O stats.
pgstat_flush_backend() is extended with a "flags" argument to control
which parts of the stats of a backend should be flushed.
With this refactoring, it becomes easier to plug into backend statistics
more data. A patch to add information related to WAL in this stats kind
is under discussion.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z3zqc4o09dM/Ezyz@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
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Backpatch-through: 13
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This adds a new variable-numbered statistics kind in pgstats, where the
object ID key of the stats entries is based on the proc number of the
backends. This acts as an upper-bound for the number of stats entries
that can exist at once. The entries are created when a backend starts
after authentication succeeds, and are removed when the backend exits,
making the stats entry exist for as long as their backend is up and
running. These are not written to the pgstats file at shutdown (note
that write_to_file is disabled, as a safety measure).
Currently, these stats include only information about the I/O generated
by a backend, using the same layer as pg_stat_io, except that it is now
possible to know how much activity is happening in each backend rather
than an overall aggregate of all the activity. A function called
pg_stat_get_backend_io() is added to access this data depending on the
PID of a backend. The existing structure could be expanded in the
future to add more information about other statistics related to
backends, depending on requirements or ideas.
Auxiliary processes are not included in this set of statistics. These
are less interesting to have than normal backends as they have dedicated
entries in pg_stat_io, and stats kinds of their own.
This commit includes also pg_stat_reset_backend_stats(), function able
to reset all the stats associated to a single backend.
Bump catalog version and PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier, Nazir
Bilal Yavuz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZtXR+CtkEVVE/LHF@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
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These comments referred to database objects, but depending on the stats
kind dealt with this may not be true.
Issues found while reviewing a different patch in this area.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZtXR+CtkEVVE/LHF@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
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pgstat_write_statsfile() discards any entries marked as dropped from
being written to the stats file at shutdown, and also included an
assertion based on the same condition.
The intention of the assertion is to track that no pgstats entries
should be left around as terminating backends should drop any entries
they still hold references on before the stats file is written by the
checkpointer, and it not worth taking down the server in this case if
there is a bug making that possible.
Let's improve the comment of this area to document clearly what's
intended.
Based on a discussion with Bertrand Drouvot and Anton A. Melnikov.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a13e8cdf-b97a-4ecb-8f42-aaa367974e29@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 15
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818119afccd3 has introduced the "generation" concept in pgstats entries,
incremented a counter when a pgstats entry is reinitialized, but it did
not count on the fact that backends still holding local references to
such entries need to be refreshed if the cache age is outdated. The
previous logic only updated local references when an entry was dropped,
but it needs also to consider entries that are reinitialized.
This matters for replication slot stats (as well as custom pgstats kinds
in 18~), where concurrent drops and creates of a slot could cause
incorrect stats to be locally referenced. This would lead to an
assertion failure at shutdown when writing out the stats file, as the
backend holding an outdated local reference would not be able to drop
during its shutdown sequence the stats entry that should be dropped, as
the last process holding a reference to the stats entry. The
checkpointer was then complaining about such an entry late in the
shutdown sequence, after the shutdown checkpoint is finished with the
control file updated, causing the stats file to not be generated. In
non-assert builds, the entry would just be skipped with the stats file
written.
Note that only logical replication slots use statistics.
A test case based on TAP is added to test_decoding, where a persistent
connection peeking at a slot's data is kept with concurrent drops and
creates of the same slot. This is based on the isolation test case that
Anton has sent. As it requires a node shutdown with a check to make
sure that the stats file is written with this specific sequence of
events, TAP is used instead.
Reported-by: Anton A. Melnikov
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/56bf8ff9-dd8c-47b2-872a-748ede82af99@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 15
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Commit ccd38024bc, which introduced the pg_signal_autovacuum_worker
role, added a call to pgstat_get_beentry_by_proc_number() for the
purpose of determining whether the process is an autovacuum worker.
This function calls pgstat_read_current_status(), which can be
fairly expensive and may return cached, out-of-date information.
Since we just need to look up the target backend's BackendType, and
we already know its ProcNumber, we can instead inspect the
BackendStatusArray directly, which is much less expensive and
possibly more up-to-date. There are some caveats with this
approach (which are documented in the code), but it's still
substantially better than before.
Reported-by: Andres Freund
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ujenaa2uabzfkwxwmfifawzdozh3ljr7geozlhftsuosgm7n7q%40g3utqqyyosb6
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This new field controls if entries of a stats kind should be written or
not to the on-disk pgstats file when shutting down an instance. This
affects both fixed and variable-numbered kinds.
This is useful for custom statistics by itself, and a patch is under
discussion to add a new builtin stats kind where the write of the stats
is not necessary. All the built-in stats kinds, as well as the two
custom stats kinds in the test module injection_points, set this flag to
"true" for now, so as stats entries are written to the on-disk pgstats
file.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Zz7T47nHwYgeYwOe@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
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This fixes a set of race conditions with cumulative statistics where a
shared stats entry could be dropped while it should still be valid in
the event when it is reused: an entry may refer to a different object
but requires the same hash key. This can happen with various stats
kinds, like:
- Replication slots that compute internally an index number, for
different slot names.
- Stats kinds that use an OID in the object key, where a wraparound
causes the same key to be used if an OID is used for the same object.
- As of PostgreSQL 18, custom pgstats kinds could also be an issue,
depending on their implementation.
This issue is fixed by introducing a counter called "generation" in the
shared entries via PgStatShared_HashEntry, initialized at 0 when an
entry is created and incremented when the same entry is reused, to avoid
concurrent issues on drop because of other backends still holding a
reference to it. This "generation" is copied to the local copy that a
backend holds when looking at an object, then cross-checked with the
shared entry to make sure that the entry is not dropped even if its
"refcount" justifies that if it has been reused.
This problem could show up when a backend shuts down and needs to
discard any entries it still holds, causing statistics to be removed
when they should not, or even an assertion failure. Another report
involved a failure in a standby after an OID wraparound, where the
startup process would FATAL on a "can only drop stats once", stopping
recovery abruptly. The buildfarm has been sporadically complaining
about the problem, as well, but the window is hard to reach with the
in-core tests.
Note that the issue can be reproduced easily by adding a sleep before
dshash_find() in pgstat_release_entry_ref() to enlarge the problematic
window while repeating test_decoding's isolation test oldest_xmin a
couple of times, for example, as pointed out by Alexander Lakhin.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin, Peter Smith
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1KxuMVyAryz_Vk5yq3ejgKYcL6F45Hj9ZnMNBS-g+PuZg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17947-b9554521ad963c9c@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 15
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