On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 7:50 PM Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
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> On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 10:41 AM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Sorry, I have again new comments after a little bit more thinking.
>> I'm wondering if we can do something about shared objects while we're
>> at it. They don't belong to any database, so it's a little bit
>> orthogonal to this proposal, but it seems quite important to track
>> error on those too!
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>> What about adding a new field in PgStat_GlobalStats for that? We can
>> use the same lastDir to easily detect such objects and slightly adapt
>> sendFile again, which seems quite straightforward.
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> Ah, didn't spot that one until after I pushed :/ Sorry about that.
No problem, I should have thought about it sooner anyway.
> Hmm. That's an interesting thought. And then add a column to pg_stat_bgwriter, I assume?
Yes, and a new entry for PgStat_Shared_Reset_Target I guess.
(Which is an ever increasingly bad name for the view, but that's
unrelated to this)
yeah :/
> Question is then what number that should show -- only the checksum counter in non-database-fields, or the total
numberacross the cluster?
I'd say only for non-database-fields errors, especially if we can
reset each counters separately. If necessary, we can add a new view
to give a global overview of checksum errors for DBA convenience.
