Re: pgsql: pgstat: store statistics in shared memory. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: pgsql: pgstat: store statistics in shared memory.
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Msg-id 20220407063527.jdf642iuhv7vemz2@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: pgsql: pgstat: store statistics in shared memory.  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
Responses Re: pgsql: pgstat: store statistics in shared memory.  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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Hi,

On 2022-04-07 15:09:27 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 04:37:02AM +0000, Andres Freund wrote:
> > pgstat: store statistics in shared memory.
> > 
> > Previously the statistics collector received statistics updates via UDP and
> > shared statistics data by writing them out to temporary files regularly. These
> > files can reach tens of megabytes and are written out up to twice a
> > second. This has repeatedly prevented us from adding additional useful
> > statistics.
> 
> rorqual, that uses --disable-spinlocks and --disable-atomics, is
> unhappy after this commit:
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=rorqual&dt=2022-04-07%2005%3A47%3A03
> 
> test_decoding is the one complaining here, and I can reproduce the
> issue locally once I build the code with those switches.

Yea, saw that too. About to push the fix...

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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