Re: Failed transaction statistics to measure the logical replication progress

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 8:55 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 4:49 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 7:04 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 11:35 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 1:54 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > > > > >
> > > > > > Then, if, we proceed in this direction,
> > > > > > the place to implement those stats
> > > > > > would be on the LogicalRepWorker struct, instead ?
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Or, we can make existing stats persistent and then add these stats on
> > > > > top of it. Sawada-San, do you have any thoughts on this matter?
> > > >
> > > > I think that making existing stats including received_lsn and
> > > > last_msg_receipt_time persistent by using stats collector could cause
> > > > massive reporting messages. We can report these messages with a
> > > > certain interval to reduce the amount of messages but we will end up
> > > > seeing old stats on the view.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Can't we keep the current and new stats both in-memory and persist on
> > > disk? So, the persistent stats data will be used to fill the in-memory
> > > counters after restarting of workers, otherwise, we will always refer
> > > to in-memory values.
> >
> > Interesting. Probably we can have apply workers and table sync workers
> > send their statistics to the stats collector at exit (before the stats
> > collector shutting down)? And the startup process will restore them at
> > restart?
> >
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> I think we do need to send at the exit but we should probably send at
> some other regular interval as well to avoid losing all the stats
> after the crash-restart situation.

But we clear all statistics collected by the stats collector during
crash recovery. No?

Regards,

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Masahiko Sawada
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