Re: Using ProcSignal to get memory context stats from a running backend

From: Maksim Milyutin <milyutinma(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Using ProcSignal to get memory context stats from a running backend
Date: 2017-12-22 15:19:47
Message-ID: 1f33aa48-d7be-a6e8-8f2b-50923c9ef7ca@gmail.com
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On 22.12.2017 16:56, Craig Ringer wrote:

> On 22 December 2017 at 20:50, Maksim Milyutin <milyutinma(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:milyutinma(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> On 19.12.2017 16:54, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
>> sorry for small offtopic. Can be used this mechanism for log of
>> executed plan or full query?
>
>
> That's a really good idea. I'd love to be able to pg_explain_backend(...)
>
> I left the mechanism as a generic diagnostic signal exactly so that we
> could add other things we wanted to be able to ask backends. I think a
> follow-on patch that adds support for dumping explain-format plans
> would be great, if it's practical to do that while a query's already
> running.

Noticing the interest in the calling some routines on the remote backend
through signals, in parallel thread[1] I have proposed the possibility
to define user defined signal handlers in extensions. There is a patch
taken from pg_query_state module.

1.
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3f905f10-cf7a-d4e0-64a1-7fd9b8351592%40gmail.com

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Regards,
Maksim Milyutin

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