Re: New statistics for tuning WAL buffer size

From: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: ikedamsh(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com
Cc: masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)fujitsu(dot)com, magnus(at)hagander(dot)net
Subject: Re: New statistics for tuning WAL buffer size
Date: 2020-09-11 03:17:16
Message-ID: 20200911.121716.1852885397303490857.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
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Hello.

At Wed, 09 Sep 2020 13:57:37 +0900, Masahiro Ikeda <ikedamsh(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com> wrote in
> I checked what function calls XLogBackgroundFlush() which calls
> AdvanceXLInsertBuffer() to increment m_wal_buffers_full.
>
> I found that WalSndWaitForWal() calls it, so I added it.
> Is it better to move it in WalSndLoop() like the attached patch?

By the way, we are counting some wal-related numbers in
pgWalUsage.(bytes, records, fpi). Since now that we are going to have
a new view related to WAL statistics, wouln't it be more useful to
show them together in the view?

(Another reason to propose this is that a substantially one-column
table may look not-great..)

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center

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