On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 22:57, Tomas Vondra <t...@fuzzy.cz> wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to propose a small patch that allows better checkpoint progress > monitoring. The patch is quite simple - it adds a new integer GUC > "checkpoint_update_limit" and every time checkpoint writes this number of > buffers, it does two things: > > (a) logs a "checkpoint status" message into the server log, with info > about total number of buffers to write, number of already written buffers, > current and average write speed and estimate of remaining time > > (b) sends bgwriter stats (so that the buffers_checkpoint is updated) > > I believe this will make checkpoint tuning easier, especially with large > shared bufferers and large when there's other write activity (so that it's > difficult to see checkpoint I/O). > > The default value (0) means this continuous logging is disabled.
This seems like the wrong thing to write to the log. It's really only useful *during* the checkpoint run, isn't it? If so, I think it should go in a pg_stat view. In theory, this could be the "progress view" or "progress field" talked about around Gregs previous patch - or it could just be modifying the commandstring in pg_stat_activity. Either way, it should be updated in shared memory in that case (like current query is), and not sent with a message to the collector. IMHO, of course ;) -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
