Re: pg_stat_bgwriter.buffers_backend is pretty meaningless (and more?)

From: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: andres(at)anarazel(dot)de, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com, pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com, lukas(at)fittl(dot)com, alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org, magnus(at)hagander(dot)net, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com, m(dot)sakrejda(at)gmail(dot)com
Subject: Re: pg_stat_bgwriter.buffers_backend is pretty meaningless (and more?)
Date: 2023-03-07 02:55:10
Message-ID: 20230307.115510.1044817917577876322.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
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At Mon, 6 Mar 2023 15:21:14 -0500, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 2:34 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > That, but also because it's simply more reliable. autovacuum=off doesn't
> > protect against a anti-wraparound vacuum or such. Or a concurrent test somehow
> > triggering a read. Or ...
>
> Good point. Attached is what you suggested. I committed the transaction
> before the drop table so that the statistics would be visible when we
> queried pg_stat_io.

While I don't believe anti-wraparound vacuum can occur during testing,
Melanie's solution (moving the commit by a few lines) seems working
(by a manual testing).

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center

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