Re: DTrace probes patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Lor
Subject Re: DTrace probes patch
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Msg-id 494957B8.8050009@sun.com
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In response to Re: DTrace probes patch  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> But there are 5 callers of XLogWrite ... why aren't the other ones being
> tracked too?
>
>   

This probe originally came from Simon, so it can't possibly be wrong :-)

My understanding is that we only want to track the XLogWrite when 
advancing to the next buffer page, and if there is unwritten data in the 
new buffer page, that indicates no more empty WAL buffer pages 
available, but I may be wrong. I did some tests by adjusting 
wal_buffers, and I could observe this behavior, more calls to XLogWrite 
with smaller wal_buffers.

-Robert




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