pgsql: Implement rate-limiting logic on how often backends will attempt - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Log Message:
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Implement rate-limiting logic on how often backends will attempt to send
messages to the stats collector.  This avoids the problem that enabling
stats_row_level for autovacuum has a significant overhead for short
read-only transactions, as noted by Arjen van der Meijden.  We can avoid
an extra gettimeofday call by piggybacking on the one done for WAL-logging
xact commit or abort (although that doesn't help read-only transactions,
since they don't WAL-log anything).

In my proposal for this, I noted that we could change the WAL log entries
for commit/abort to record full TimestampTz precision, instead of only
time_t as at present.  That's not done in this patch, but will be committed
separately.

Modified Files:
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    pgsql/src/backend/access/transam:
        xact.c (r1.240 -> r1.241)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c.diff?r1=1.240&r2=1.241)
    pgsql/src/backend/commands:
        analyze.c (r1.106 -> r1.107)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/commands/analyze.c.diff?r1=1.106&r2=1.107)
        vacuumlazy.c (r1.87 -> r1.88)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/commands/vacuumlazy.c.diff?r1=1.87&r2=1.88)
    pgsql/src/backend/postmaster:
        pgstat.c (r1.153 -> r1.154)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c.diff?r1=1.153&r2=1.154)
    pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt:
        timestamp.c (r1.174 -> r1.175)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c.diff?r1=1.174&r2=1.175)
    pgsql/src/include/access:
        xact.h (r1.85 -> r1.86)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/access/xact.h.diff?r1=1.85&r2=1.86)
    pgsql/src/include/utils:
        timestamp.h (r1.67 -> r1.68)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/utils/timestamp.h.diff?r1=1.67&r2=1.68)
    pgsql/src/test/regress/expected:
        stats.out (r1.10 -> r1.11)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out.diff?r1=1.10&r2=1.11)
    pgsql/src/test/regress/sql:
        stats.sql (r1.8 -> r1.9)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql.diff?r1=1.8&r2=1.9)