Re: Add sub-transaction overflow status in pg_stat_activity

On 12/6/21, 8:19 PM, "Dilip Kumar" <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> If the subtransaction cache is overflowed in some of the transactions
> then it will affect all the concurrent queries as they need to access
> the SLRU for checking the visibility of each tuple. But currently
> there is no way to identify whether in any backend subtransaction is
> overflowed or what is the current active subtransaction count.
> Attached patch adds subtransaction count and subtransaction overflow
> status in pg_stat_activity. I have implemented this because of the
> recent complain about the same[1]

I'd like to give a general +1 to this effort. Thanks for doing this!
I've actually created a function to provide this information in the
past, so I will help review.

Nathan