From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | pg_stat_io not tracking smgrwriteback() is confusing |
Date: | 2023-04-19 17:23:26 |
Message-ID: | 20230419172326.dhgyo4wrrhulovt6@awork3.anarazel.de |
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Hi,
I noticed that the numbers in pg_stat_io dont't quite add up to what I
expected in write heavy workloads. Particularly for checkpointer, the numbers
for "write" in log_checkpoints output are larger than what is visible in
pg_stat_io.
That partially is because log_checkpoints' "write" covers way too many things,
but there's an issue with pg_stat_io as well:
Checkpoints, and some other sources of writes, will often end up doing a lot
of smgrwriteback() calls - which pg_stat_io doesn't track. Nor do any
pre-existing forms of IO statistics.
It seems pretty clear that we should track writeback as well. I wonder if it's
worth doing so for 16? It'd give a more complete picture that way. The
counter-argument I see is that we didn't track the time for it in existing
stats either, and that nobody complained - but I suspect that's mostly because
nobody knew to look.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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