Re: please update ps display for recovery checkpoint

From: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, "k(dot)jamison(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <k(dot)jamison(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Nitin Jadhav <nitinjadhavpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: please update ps display for recovery checkpoint
Date: 2021-06-07 16:02:03
Message-ID: 32B59582-AA6C-4609-B08F-2256A271F7A5@amazon.com
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On 6/6/21, 7:14 PM, "Justin Pryzby" <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> wrote:
> Now, I wonder whether the startup process should also include some detail about
> "syncing data dir". It's possible to strace the process to see what it's
> doing, but most DBA would probably not know that, and it's helpful to know the
> status of recovery and what part of recovery is slow: sync, replay, or
> checkpoint. commit df9274adf improved the situation between replay and
> ckpoint, but it's still not clear what "postgres: startup" means before replay
> starts.

I've seen a few functions cause lengthy startups, including
SyncDataDirectory() (for which I was grateful to see 61752afb),
StartupReorderBuffer(), and RemovePgTempFiles(). I like the idea of
adding additional information in the ps title, but I also think it is
worth exploring additional ways to improve on these O(n) startup
tasks.

Nathan

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