Hi,
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 3:42 PM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> While going through the mail chain on relation, plan and catalogue
> caching [1], I'm thinking on the lines that is there a way to know the
> current relation, plan and catalogue cache sizes? If there is a way
> already, please ignore this and it would be grateful if someone point
> me to that.
AFAIK the only way to get statistics on PostgreSQL's backend internal
local memory usage is to use MemoryContextStats() via gdb to output
the information to the log, so far.
> If there is no such way to know the cache sizes and other info such as
> statistics, number of entries, cache misses, hits etc. can the
> approach discussed here be applied?
I think it's partially yes.
> If the user knows the cache statistics and other information, may be
> we can allow user to take appropriate actions such as allowing him to
> delete few entries through a command or some other way.
Yeah, one of the purposes of the features we are discussing here is to
use them for such situation.
Regards,
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Tatsuhito Kasahara
kasahara.tatsuhito _at_ gmail.com
