Re: Postgres 9.1 statistics in pg_stat_database

=?utf-8?q?Milos_Gajdos?= <gy2kre(at)centrum(dot)cz> writes:
> What this shows is that xact_commit increases by 3 after just one row insert. tup_inserted does seem to report correct value. After simple SELECT, xact_commit increases by 2 - kind of strange as SELECT shouldn't really be increasing xact_commit ?

Yes, a SELECT does count as an xact_commit. What I think is confusing
you is that the commit isn't reported to the stats collector right away
unless there are some database-local table access counts to send too.
And fetching from pg_stat_database doesn't result in any such accesses.
So each SELECT results in a local increment of the commit counter but
you won't see it in the stats until after you do an INSERT, or otherwise
do something that involves a countable access to a database-local table.

I do see what seems to be a bug, which is that the "Don't expend a clock
check" short-circuit at the top of pgstat_report_stat() needs to not
fire if "force" is true. That looks like it could result in never
counting a session's last few transactions at all. But that's not
what's affecting you here, it's the intentional optimization to delay
sending transaction counts.

regards, tom lane