From 712dd139243c4ec8e48b4db1fa1109c3437081f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias van de Meent Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 21:20:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v1] incremental backups: Add new items to glossary, monitoring.sgml The previous patches seem to have overlooked this. --- doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml index 5815fa4471..0f9d48a7dd 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml @@ -893,6 +893,29 @@ + + Incremental Backup + + + A backup that contains only the data that was potentially changed since + the previous base backup + and other incremental backups. It is often (but not always) smaller than + the WAL that generated the changes between the last basebackup and the + end of this incremental backup. Like base backups, it is generated by the + tool . + + + In combination with WAL + data, recent incremental backups and a base backup this can restore a + to + a consistent state without having to replay all the WAL that was generated + since the last base backup. + + + For more information, see + + + Insert @@ -2157,6 +2180,20 @@ + + WAL summarizer (process) + + + A special backend process + that summarizes WAL data for + incremental backups. + + + For more information, see + + + + WAL writer (process) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml index b804eb8b5e..6135d7a270 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml @@ -999,7 +999,8 @@ postgres 27093 0.0 0.0 30096 2752 ? Ss 11:34 0:00 postgres: ser client backend, checkpointer, archiver, standalone backend, startup, walreceiver, - walsender and walwriter. + walsender, walwriter and + walsummarizer. In addition, background workers registered by extensions may have additional types. @@ -4062,6 +4063,21 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage + + + Every time an index is searched, the index's + pg_stat_all_indexes.idx_scan + field is incremented. This usually happens once per index scan node + execution, but might take place several times during execution of a scan + that searches for multiple values together. Queries that use certain + SQL constructs to search for rows matching any value + out of a list (or an array) of multiple scalar values might perform + multiple primitive index scans (up to one primitive scan + per scalar value) at runtime. See + for details. + + + -- 2.40.1