Re: Add shared buffer hits to pg_stat_io

From: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Maciek Sakrejda <m(dot)sakrejda(at)gmail(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, smilingsamay(at)gmail(dot)com, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, Lukas Fittl <lukas(at)fittl(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add shared buffer hits to pg_stat_io
Date: 2023-03-09 16:03:13
Message-ID: c5e746a9-7702-42bf-41da-43280f48b1d1@gmail.com
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Hi,

On 3/9/23 2:23 PM, Melanie Plageman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 2:23 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>>
>> On 2023-03-08 13:44:32 -0500, Melanie Plageman wrote:
>>> However, I am concerned that, while unlikely, this could be flakey.
>>> Something could happen to force all of those blocks out of shared
>>> buffers (even though they were just read in) before we hit them.
>>
>> You could make the test query a simple nested loop self-join, that'll prevent
>> the page being evicted, because it'll still be pinned on the outer side, while
>> generating hits on the inner side.
>
> Good idea. v3 attached.

Thanks! The added test looks good to me.

Regards,

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Bertrand Drouvot
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

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