On Mon, 25 Jul 2016, 10:35 p.m. Adrian Klaver, <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com>
wrote:

> On 07/25/2016 07:28 AM, Sameer Kumar wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 25 Jul 2016, 10:10 p.m. Adrian Klaver,
> > <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.kla...@aklaver.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 07/24/2016 09:58 PM, Sameer Kumar wrote:
> >     > Hi,
> >     >
> >     > I have PostgreSQL v9.4.4 running in my environment. It has been up
> for
> >     > over 2 years now. I noticed that suddenly the statistics have been
> >     reset
> >     > and all the stat tables/columns got restarted from.
> >
> >     Any of these happen?:
> >
> >     https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/monitoring-stats.html
> >     ". When recovery is performed at server start (e.g. after immediate
> >     shutdown, server crash, and point-in-time recovery), all statistics
> >     counters are reset."
> >
> >
> >
> > Nope. This has happened on the standby database. The counter on the
> > master database are still running fine.
> >
> > There was a period of few days about a month ago when I had to reverse
> > the roles but then I switched them back to the way they were. But
> > recently, I have not done anything which brings the server out of
> recovery.
> >
> >
> >     >
> >     > This happened 2 weeks ago. I noticed only recently after I looked
> >     at the
> >     > plot over last week (which dipped suddenly for "number of tuples
> >     > returned", "number of conflicts" etc).
> >
> >     Any change in procedures the last two weeks?
> >
> >
> > Nope. The scripts to capture this data to csv file is very much the same.
> >
> >
> >     >
> >     > The columns which got reset are from pg_stat_database,
> >     > pg_stat_user_tables, pg_stat_bgwriter
> >     >
> >     > As far I know no one has fired pg_stat_reset or
> pg_stat_reset_shared.
> >     >
> >     > I noticed that the last largest value is from pg_stat_user_tables.
> >     > tup_returned (470440261405). Does the statistics get reset
> >     automatically
> >
> >     tup_returned is in pg_stat_database.
> >
> >
> > Sorry my bad (a copy paste mistake). Yes I was referring to tup_returned
> > from pg_stat_database. But the various stats in pg_stat_user_tables have
> > also been reset.
> >
> >
> >     What does the stats_reset field show in pg_stat_database?
> >
> >
> > It says a timestamp from 18th July 2016. Infact all the other statistics
> > views have the same timestamp.
>
> Don't suppose you still have the logs from that date to see if there is
> a clue?
>

I don't have them on the server. I can fetch them from the archives. Ot
might tke a day or two. Let me get back. Thanks for helping.
Any idea about probable suspects apart from the ones you listed?


> >
> >
> >     > when the value for one of the statistics reaches the high number
> >     > supported by int4?
> >     >
> >     > I am running on Red Hat 6.7.
> >     >
> >     > Regards
> >     > Sameer
> >     > --
> >     > --
> >     > Best Regards
> >     > Sameer Kumar | DB Solution Architect
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> >     >
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> >
> >
> >     --
> >     Adrian Klaver
> >     adrian.kla...@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.kla...@aklaver.com>
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Best Regards
> > Sameer Kumar | DB Solution Architect
> > *ASHNIK PTE. LTD.*
> >
> > 101 Cecil Street, #11-11 Tong Eng Building, Singapore 069 533
> >
> > T: +65 6438 3504 | M: +65 8110 0350 | www.ashnik.com
> >
>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian.kla...@aklaver.com
>
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Sameer Kumar | DB Solution Architect
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