Re: New SQL counter statistics view (pg_stat_sql) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 3:05 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> How about having the tag not be a column name but a row entry.  So you'd
> do something like
>
> SELECT * FROM pg_stat_sql WHERE tag = 'ALTER VIEW';
>
> That way, we don't have to keep updating (and re-debating) this when new
> command types or subtypes are added.  And queries written for future
> versions will not fail when run against old servers.

Yeah, good idea.

Yes, Having it as a row entry is good.

 

 

Let's also discuss the interface from the stats collector.  Currently we
have some 20 new SQL functions, all alike, each loading the whole data
and returning a single counter, and then the view invokes each function
separately.  That doesn't seem great to me.  How about having a single C
function that returns the whole thing as a SRF instead, and the view is
just a single function invocation -- something like pg_lock_status
filling pg_locks in one go.

Another consideration is that the present patch lumps together all ALTER
cases in a single counter.  This isn't great, but at the same time we
don't want to bloat the stat files by having hundreds of counters per
database, do we?

Currently, The SQL stats is a fixed size counter to track the all the ALTER 

cases as single counter. So while sending the stats from the backend to

stats collector at the end of the transaction, the cost is same, because of

it's fixed size. This approach adds overhead to send and read the stats

is minimal.

With the following approach, I feel it is possible to support the counter at

command tag level.

Add a Global and local Hash to keep track of the counters by using the

command tag as the key, this hash table increases dynamically whenever

a new type of SQL command gets executed. The Local Hash data is passed

to stats collector whenever the transaction gets committed.

The problem I am thinking is that, Sending data from Hash and populating

the Hash from stats file for all the command tags adds some overhead.

I tried changing the pg_stat_sql into row mode and ran the regress suite to 

add different type of SQL commands to the view and ran the pgbench test

on my laptop to find out any performance impact with this patch.

                                HEAD      PATCH

pgbench - select      828          816

Here I attached the pg_stat_sql patch to keep track of all SQL commands

based on the commandTag and their counts. I attached the result of this

view that is run on the database after "make installcheck" just for reference.

Thank you for the patch.

Test: Commands with uppercase and lowercase
====
If the tag='select' then it returns the 0 rows but count is actually increment by 1.

tag='select' vs tag='SELECT'

postgres=# SET track_sql TO ON;
SET
postgres=# SELECT * FROM pg_stat_sql where tag='SELECT';
  tag   | count
--------+-------
 SELECT |    12
(1 row)

postgres=# SELECT * FROM pg_stat_sql where tag='SELECT';
  tag   | count
--------+-------
 SELECT |    13
(1 row)

postgres=# SELECT * FROM pg_stat_sql where tag='select';
 tag | count
-----+-------
(0 rows)

postgres=# SELECT * FROM pg_stat_sql where tag='SELECT';
  tag   | count
--------+-------
 SELECT |    15
(1 row)

I think all command works same as above.

Regards,
Vinayak Pokale
NTT Open Source Software Center