Re: Introduce a new view for checkpointer related stats

The patch looks good to me.

Thanks & Regards,
Nitin Jadhav

On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 11:20 AM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 5:15 PM Bharath Rupireddy
> <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > I don't have a strong opinion about changing column names. However, if
> > we were to change it, I prefer to use names that
> > PgStat_CheckpointerStats has. BTW, that's what
> > PgStat_BgWriterStats/pg_stat_bgwriter and
> > PgStat_ArchiverStats/pg_stat_archiver uses.
>
> After thinking about this a while, I convinced myself to change the
> column names to be a bit more meaningful. I still think having
> checkpoints in the column names is needed because it also has other
> backend related columns. I'm attaching the v4 patch for further
> review.
> CREATE VIEW pg_stat_checkpointer AS
> SELECT
> pg_stat_get_timed_checkpoints() AS timed_checkpoints,
> pg_stat_get_requested_checkpoints() AS requested_checkpoints,
> pg_stat_get_checkpoint_write_time() AS checkpoint_write_time,
> pg_stat_get_checkpoint_sync_time() AS checkpoint_sync_time,
> pg_stat_get_buf_written_checkpoints() AS buffers_written_checkpoints,
> pg_stat_get_buf_written_backend() AS buffers_written_backend,
> pg_stat_get_buf_fsync_backend() AS buffers_fsync_backend,
> pg_stat_get_checkpointer_stat_reset_time() AS stats_reset;
>
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> Bharath Rupireddy
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