Re: Add new option 'all' to pg_stat_reset_shared() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From torikoshia
Subject Re: Add new option 'all' to pg_stat_reset_shared()
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Msg-id e784c0d54c849e86d69138883d12138f@oss.nttdata.com
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In response to Re: Add new option 'all' to pg_stat_reset_shared()  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: Add new option 'all' to pg_stat_reset_shared()
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Thanks all for the comments!

On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 5:17 AM Matthias van de Meent 
<boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> Knowing that your metrics have a shared starting point can be quite
> valuable, as it allows you to do some math that would otherwise be
> much less accurate when working with stats over a short amount of
> time. I've not used these stats systems much myself, but skew between
> metrics caused by different reset points can be difficult to detect
> and debug, so I think an atomic call to reset all these stats could be
> worth implementing.

Since each stats, except wal_prefetch was reset acquiring LWLock, 
attached PoC patch makes the call atomic by using these LWlocks.

If this is the right direction, I'll try to make wal_prefetch also take 
LWLock.

On 2023-11-04 10:49, Andres Freund wrote:

> Yes, agreed. However, I'd suggest adding pg_stat_reset_shared(), 
> instead of
> pg_stat_reset_shared('all') for this purpose.

In the attached PoC patch the shared statistics are reset by calling 
pg_stat_reset_shared() not pg_stat_reset_shared('all').

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Regards,

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Atsushi Torikoshi
NTT DATA Group Corporation
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