Re: pgstat_send_connstats() introduces unnecessary timestamp and UDP overhead

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, magnus(at)hagander(dot)net, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgstat_send_connstats() introduces unnecessary timestamp and UDP overhead
Date: 2021-09-01 04:16:25
Message-ID: 20210901041625.jhlaqkutf3gdau4z@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2021-09-01 05:39:14 +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-08-31 at 18:55 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 04:55:35AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:In the view of that, how about doubling PGSTAT_STAT_INTERVAL to 1000
> > >
> > > > milliseconds?  That would mean slightly less up-to-date statistics, but
> > > > I doubt that that will be a problem.
> >
> > I think it's not helpful. Still increases the number of messages substantially in workloads
> > with a lot of connections doing occasional queries. Which is common.
>
> How come? If originally you send table statistics every 500ms, and now you send
> table statistics and session statistics every second, that should amount to the
> same thing. Where is my misunderstanding?

Consider the case of one query a second.

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