On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 03:50:29PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 02:07:14PM -0800, Jeremy Schneider wrote: > > The wait event information in PostgreSQL is very helpful for > > troubleshooting. I always reference the PostgreSQL docs first, and when > > people ask me about wait events that where I send them first. The list > > of wait events there is comprehensive, but the descriptions are a bit > > terse and often use vocabulary that requires some familiarity with the > > internals to understand. > > (I think that it would be better to avoid cross-posting among multiple > lists. Please note that I have removed -www and -general in my reply, > keeping -docs because that7s the most meaningful) > > > Could we create a new wiki page as a starting point, and we could draft > > up and maintain something there for a little while? Maybe a place like > > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Wait_Events ? > > That sounds like a good idea, as it is true that the docs are rather > sparse about the meaning behind a given wait event showing a lot in > profiles and what it actually means for your application. We have a > couple of links from the docs to the wiki, so it could be an idea to > add a link to the wiki in the docs near the wait event table. more to > the point, this makes me wonder if actually a better place for such > stuff would be a new section dedicated to wait event profiles here: > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/monitoring.html
Agreed, it probably should be in the official docs. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + As you are, so once was I. As I am, so you will be. + + Ancient Roman grave inscription +
