From 6090721c919e543c5f52797375e637b9b7b7ba0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bertrand Drouvot Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2025 14:22:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid, the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and the time at which these statistics were last reset. It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity(). Adding documentation and tests. XXX: Bump catversion --- doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql | 9 +++ src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c | 57 +++++++++++++ src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat | 9 +++ src/test/regress/expected/rules.out | 6 ++ src/test/regress/expected/stats.out | 17 ++++ src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql | 10 +++ 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+) 51.7% doc/src/sgml/ 3.2% src/backend/catalog/ 23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/ 7.0% src/include/catalog/ 9.6% src/test/regress/expected/ 5.1% src/test/regress/sql/ diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml @@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres 27093 0.0 0.0 30096 2752 ? Ss 11:34 0:00 postgres: ser + + + pg_stat_backend_transaction + pg_stat_backend_transaction + + + One row per server process, showing statistics related to + the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and + rollbacks. + See + pg_stat_backend_transaction for details. + + + pg_stat_replicationpg_stat_replication One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about @@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage + + <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> + + + pg_stat_backend_transaction + + + + The pg_stat_backend_transaction view will have one row + per server process, showing statistics related to + the current activity of that process. + + + + <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View + + + + + Column Type + + + Description + + + + + + + + pid integer + + + Process ID of this backend + + + + + + xid_count bigint + + + The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take + into account virtual transaction ID on purpose. + + + + + + xact_commit bigint + + + The number of transactions that have been committed. + + + + + + xact_rollback bigint + + + The number of transactions that have been rolled back. + + + + + + stats_reset timestamp with time zone + + + Time at which these statistics were last reset + + + + +
+ + + + The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer, + the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher. + + + + <structname>pg_stat_replication</structname> @@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage + + + + pg_stat_get_backend_transactions + + pg_stat_get_backend_transactions ( integer ) + setof record + + + Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the + specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system + if NULL is specified. The fields returned are a + subset of those in the pg_stat_backend_transaction view. + + + diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644 --- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql +++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql @@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid) LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid); +CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS + SELECT + S.pid, + S.xid_count, + S.xact_commit, + S.xact_rollback, + S.stats_reset + FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S; + CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS SELECT S.pid, diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644 --- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c +++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c @@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) return (Datum) 0; } +/* + * Returns statistics of PG backends. + */ +Datum +pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) +{ +#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS 5 + int num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends(); + int curr_backend; + int pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0); + ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo; + + InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0); + + /* 1-based index */ + for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++) + { + /* for each row */ + Datum values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0}; + bool nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0}; + LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry; + PgBackendStatus *beentry; + PgStat_Backend *backend_stats; + + /* Get the next one in the list */ + local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend); + beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus; + + /* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */ + if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid) + continue; + + backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL); + + values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid); + + if (!backend_stats) + continue; + + values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count); + values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit); + values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback); + + if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0) + values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp); + else + nulls[4] = true; + + tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls); + + /* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */ + if (pid != -1) + break; + } + + return (Datum) 0; +} Datum pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644 --- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat +++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat @@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@ proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}', proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}', prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' }, +{ oid => '9555', + descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends', + proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f', + proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r', + prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4', + proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}', + proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}', + proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}', + prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' }, { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events', proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250', proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record', diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644 --- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out +++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out @@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count, last_failed_time, stats_reset FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset); +pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid, + xid_count, + xact_commit, + xact_rollback, + stats_reset + FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset); pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean, pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean, pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc, diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644 --- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out +++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out @@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES; INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES; UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2); DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3; +-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing +SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before + FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset BEGIN; UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100; TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1; INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES; COMMIT; +SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush(); + pg_stat_force_next_flush +-------------------------- + +(1 row) + +SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after + FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset +SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before; + ?column? +---------- + t +(1 row) + -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live BEGIN; INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES; diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644 --- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql +++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql @@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES; UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2); DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3; +-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing +SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before + FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset + BEGIN; UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100; TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1; INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES; COMMIT; +SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush(); +SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after + FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset + +SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before; + -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live BEGIN; INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES; -- 2.34.1