Re: Replication slot stats misgivings

On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 9:18 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 2:27 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Apart from this, I think you
> > have suggested somewhere in this thread to slightly update the
> > description of stream_bytes. I would like to update the description of
> > stream_bytes and total_bytes as below:
> >
> > stream_bytes
> > Amount of transaction data decoded for streaming in-progress
> > transactions to the decoding output plugin while decoding changes from
> > WAL for this slot. This and other streaming counters for this slot can
> > be used to tune logical_decoding_work_mem.
> >
> > total_bytes
> > Amount of transaction data decoded for sending transactions to the
> > decoding output plugin while decoding changes from WAL for this slot.
> > Note that this includes data that is streamed and/or spilled.
> >
> > This update considers two points:
> > a. we don't send this data across the network because plugin might
> > decide to filter this data, ex. based on publications.
> > b. not all of the decoded changes are sent to plugin, consider
> > REORDER_BUFFER_CHANGE_INTERNAL_COMMAND_ID,
> > REORDER_BUFFER_CHANGE_INTERNAL_SNAPSHOT, etc.
>
> Looks good to me.

Attached the doc update patch.

Regards,

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Masahiko Sawada
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