Re: Resetting spilled txn statistics in pg_stat_replication

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Masahiko Sawada <masahiko(dot)sawada(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Resetting spilled txn statistics in pg_stat_replication
Date: 2020-10-23 05:15:34
Message-ID: CAA4eK1+84C4BcxJON-CkKtFhO5znUXkcujDcbjwMHW735FAtCQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 8:59 AM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 7:42 AM Masahiko Sawada
> <masahiko(dot)sawada(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 20:34, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > I have modified the description of spill_count and spill_txns to make
> > > > > things clear. Any suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for the patch.
> > > >
> > > > - logical decoding exceeds
> > > > <literal>logical_decoding_work_mem</literal>. The
> > > > - counter gets incremented both for toplevel transactions and
> > > > - subtransactions.
> > > > + logical decoding of changes from WAL for this exceeds
> > > > + <literal>logical_decoding_work_mem</literal>. The counter gets
> > > > + incremented both for toplevel transactions and subtransactions.
> > > >
> > > > What is the word "this" in the above change referring to?
> > > >
> > >
> > > 'slot'. The word *slot* is missing in the sentence.
> > >
> > > > How about
> > > > something like:
> > > >
> > >
> > > > Number of transactions spilled to disk after the memory used by
> > > > logical decoding of changes from WAL exceeding
> > > > logical_decoding_work_mem. The counter gets incremented both for
> > > > toplevel transactions and subtransactions.
> > > >
> > >
> > > /exceeding/exceeds. I am fine with your proposed text as well but if
> > > you like the above after correction that would be better because it
> > > would be more close to spill_count description.
> >
> > yeah, I agree with the correction.
> >
>
> Okay, thanks, attached is an updated patch.
>

While updating the streaming stats patch, it occurred to me that we
can write a better description spill_bytes as well. Attached contains
the update to spill_bytes description.

--
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

Attachment Content-Type Size
v3-0001-Update-description-of-spilled-counters-in-pg_stat.patch application/octet-stream 2.4 KB

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