Re: Should pg_stat_bgwriter.buffers_backend_fsync be removed?

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Should pg_stat_bgwriter.buffers_backend_fsync be removed?
Date: 2014-04-29 20:05:26
Message-ID: CAM3SWZSGHykwagXfPQ2QrqifZnUb46rApKu4fy4d9vo4b2qpww@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> wrote:
> All else equal, I don't like the idea of removing this from
> pg_stat_bgwriter. Being able to look there and see if this is occurring
> since last stats reset is much easier than grepping logfiles.

Have you ever actually seen it at a non-zero value after the
compaction patch went in?

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Peter Geoghegan

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