On Wednesday, February 23, 2022 3:30 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 6:45 AM tanghy.fnst@fujitsu.com
> <tanghy.fnst@fujitsu.com> wrote:
> >
> > I found a problem when using it. When a replication workers exits, the
> > transaction stats should be sent to stats collector if they were not
> > sent before because it didn't reach PGSTAT_STAT_INTERVAL. But I saw
> > that the stats weren't updated as expected.
> >
> > I looked into it and found that the replication worker would send the
> > transaction stats (if any) before it exits. But it got invalid subid
> > in pgstat_send_subworker_xact_stats(), which led to the following result:
> >
> > postgres=# select pg_stat_get_subscription_worker(0, null);
> > pg_stat_get_subscription_worker
> > ---------------------------------
> > (0,,2,0,0,,,,0,"",)
> > (1 row)
> >
> > I think that's because subid has already been cleaned when trying to
> > send the stats. I printed the value of before_shmem_exit_list, the
> > functions in this list would be called in shmem_exit() when the worker exits.
> > logicalrep_worker_onexit() would clean up the worker info (including
> > subid), and
> > pgstat_shutdown_hook() would send stats if any.
> > logicalrep_worker_onexit() was called before calling
> pgstat_shutdown_hook().
> >
>
> Yeah, I think that is a problem and maybe we can think of solving it by sending
> the stats via logicalrep_worker_onexit before subid is cleared but not sure that
> is a good idea. I feel we need to go back to the idea of v21 for sending stats
> instead of using pgstat_report_stat.
> I think the one thing which we could improve is to avoid trying to send it each
> time before receiving each message by walrcv_receive and rather try to send it
> before we try to wait (WaitLatchOrSocket).
> Trying after each message doesn't seem to be required and could lead to some
> overhead as well. What do you think?
I agree. Fixed.
Kindly have a look at v24 shared in [1].
[1] -
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/TYCPR01MB8373A3E1BE237BAF38185BF2ED3D9%40TYCPR01MB8373.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Best Regards,
Takamichi Osumi
