Re: Should pg_stat_bgwriter.buffers_backend_fsync be removed?

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Should pg_stat_bgwriter.buffers_backend_fsync be removed?
Date: 2014-04-29 09:54:07
Message-ID: CAM3SWZSenRQQ9HcDOQpv2-3j10tywWcwWS10fg3saOgsirPNJA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:51 AM, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de> wrote:
>> I suggest removing it for 9.5, and instead logging individual
>> occurrences of backend fsync requests within ForwardFsyncRequest(). It
>> seems fair to treat that as an anomaly to draw particular attention
>> to.
>
> But wouldn't that make it more complicated/unlikely to discover cases, where
> it still doesn't work?

I don't think so, no.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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