Re: New statistics for tuning WAL buffer size

On 2020-08-24 20:45, Masahiro Ikeda wrote:
> Hi, thanks for useful comments.
>
>>> I agree to expose the number of WAL write caused by full of WAL
>>> buffers.
>>> It's helpful when tuning wal_buffers size. Haribabu separated that
>>> number
>>> into two fields in his patch; one is the number of WAL write by
>>> backend,
>>> and another is by background processes and workers. But I'm not sure
>>> how useful such separation is. I'm ok with just one field for that
>>> number.
>> I agree with you. I don't think we need to separate the numbers for
>> foreground processes and background ones. WAL buffer is a single
>> resource. So "Writes due to full WAL buffer are happening. We may be
>> able to boost performance by increasing wal_buffers" would be enough.
>
> I made a patch to expose the number of WAL write caused by full of WAL
> buffers.
> I'm going to submit this patch to commitfests.
>
> As Fujii-san and Tsunakawa-san said, it expose the total number
> since I agreed that we don't need to separate the numbers for
> foreground processes and background ones.
>
> By the way, do we need to add another metrics related to WAL?
> For example, is the total number of WAL writes to the buffers useful
> to calculate the dirty WAL write ratio?
>
> Is it enough as a first step?

I forgot to rebase the current master.
I've attached the rebased patch.

Regards,
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Masahiro Ikeda
NTT DATA CORPORATION