Re: Failed transaction statistics to measure the logical replication progress - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Masahiko Sawada
Subject Re: Failed transaction statistics to measure the logical replication progress
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Msg-id CAD21AoA3QUBaMvSk_RBwkAMqEqqLVUF20gp9mCg62xuJG2nwMw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Failed transaction statistics to measure the logical replication progress  (Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Failed transaction statistics to measure the logical replication progress
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On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 7:04 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 11:35 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 1:54 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Then, if, we proceed in this direction,
> > > > the place to implement those stats
> > > > would be on the LogicalRepWorker struct, instead ?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Or, we can make existing stats persistent and then add these stats on
> > > top of it. Sawada-San, do you have any thoughts on this matter?
> >
> > I think that making existing stats including received_lsn and
> > last_msg_receipt_time persistent by using stats collector could cause
> > massive reporting messages. We can report these messages with a
> > certain interval to reduce the amount of messages but we will end up
> > seeing old stats on the view.
> >
>
> Can't we keep the current and new stats both in-memory and persist on
> disk? So, the persistent stats data will be used to fill the in-memory
> counters after restarting of workers, otherwise, we will always refer
> to in-memory values.

Interesting. Probably we can have apply workers and table sync workers
send their statistics to the stats collector at exit (before the stats
collector shutting down)? And the startup process will restore them at
restart?

>
> > Another idea could be to have a separate
> > view, say pg_stat_subscription_xact but I'm not sure it's a better
> > idea.
> >
>
> Yeah, that is another idea but I am afraid that having three different
> views for subscription stats will be too much.

Yeah, I have the same feeling.

Regards,

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Masahiko Sawada
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