Re: Is there a way (except from server logs) to know the kind of on-going/last checkpoint?

From: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, sergey(dot)dudoladov(at)gmail(dot)com, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Is there a way (except from server logs) to know the kind of on-going/last checkpoint?
Date: 2022-01-28 02:47:39
Message-ID: CALj2ACVF5+z32jku8t98NPWmTcCn22JqGeKBPQZgtnnE+7w1rg@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 7:30 AM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 10:38:53AM +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to see the PID of the triggering process, but it is really
> > not a information suitable in the control file...
>
> Yes that's something I would like too. But even if the PIDs could be store, I
> don't think that having the information for an already completed checkpoint
> would be of any use at all.
>
> For the current checkpoint, it should also be an array of PID. For instance if
> the checkpointer started a throttled checkpoint, then someone calls a non
> immediate pg_start_backup() and finally thinks it's too slow and need a fast
> checkpoint. This would be welcome in a new pg_stat_progress_checkpoint view.

Thanks all for the comments. pg_stat_progress_checkpoint is being
discussed in another thread [1].

I will respond to the other comments soon.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CALj2ACV-F%2BK%2Bz%2BXW8fnK4MV71qz2gzAMxFnYziRgZURMB5ycAQ%40mail.gmail.com

Regards,
Bharath Rupireddy.

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