Re: [PATCH] Expose checkpoint timestamp and duration in pg_stat_checkpointer

Hi all,

I have updated the code based on the feedback received to my earlier
mails and prepared a patch for further review. In this patch, I have
renamed the checkpoint_total_time to last_checkpoint_duration,
stats_reset has been kept as the last column following the usual
pattern, last_checkpoint_duration and last_checkpoint_time will now be
overwritten per checkpoint and also have removed unnecessary lines as
per the usual format. I had successfully verified the checkpointer
duration with different write loads and I am attaching the
observations for further reference.

pgbench -c 8 -j 8 -T 30 -p 55432 postgres
pgbench (19devel)
starting vacuum...end.
transaction type: <builtin: TPC-B (sort of)>
scaling factor: 50
query mode: simple
number of clients: 8
number of threads: 8
maximum number of tries: 1
duration: 30 s
number of transactions actually processed: 55936
number of failed transactions: 0 (0.000%)
latency average = 4.290 ms
initial connection time = 7.107 ms
tps = 1864.846690 (without initial connection time)

pgbench -c 16 -j 8 -T 60 -p 55432 postgres
pgbench (19devel)
starting vacuum...end.
transaction type: <builtin: TPC-B (sort of)>
scaling factor: 50
query mode: simple
number of clients: 16
number of threads: 8
maximum number of tries: 1
duration: 60 s
number of transactions actually processed: 196974
number of failed transactions: 0 (0.000%)
latency average = 4.873 ms
initial connection time = 12.535 ms
tps = 3283.407286 (without initial connection time)
postgres=# SELECT last_checkpoint_duration, last_checkpoint_time,
write_time, sync_time, buffers_written FROM pg_stat_checkpoint
er;
last_checkpoint_duration | last_checkpoint_time |
write_time | sync_time | buffers_written
--------------------------+----------------------------------+------------+-----------+-----------------
23940 | 2025-11-28 10:02:29.298905+05:30 |
104873 | 811 | 3468
(1 row)
CHECKPOINT
sleep 1
postgres=# SELECT last_checkpoint_duration, last_checkpoint_time,
write_time, sync_time, buffers_written FROM pg_stat_checkpointer;
last_checkpoint_duration | last_checkpoint_time |
write_time | sync_time | buffers_written
--------------------------+----------------------------------+------------+-----------+-----------------
332 | 2025-11-28 10:03:57.828072+05:30 |
104979 | 857 | 10453
(1 row)
2025-11-28 10:03:57.828 IST [11343] LOG: checkpoint complete
(immediate): wrote 6985 buffers (42.6%), wrote 11 SLRU buffers; 0 WAL
file(s) added, 0 removed, 32 recycled; write=0.106 s, sync=0.046 s,
total=0.332 s; sync files=23, longest=0.004 s, average=0.002 s;
distance=538440 kB, estimate=540445 kB; lsn=0/84DDA138, redo
lsn=0/84DDA0E0

I hope these observations are helpful for further analysis. Thank you
for the earlier reviews and helpful suggestions. Looking forward to
more feedback.

Regards,
Soumya