Hi,
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 02:47:29PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 10:07:14AM +0000, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> > While resuming the work on refilenode stats (mentioned in [1] but did not
> > share
> > the patch yet), I realized that my current POC patch is buggy enough to
> > produce
> > things like:
> >
> > 024-05-14 09:51:14.783 UTC [1788714] FATAL: can only drop stats once
> >
> > While the CONTEXT provides the list of dropped stats:
> >
> > 2024-05-14 09:51:14.783 UTC [1788714] CONTEXT: WAL redo at 0/D75F478 for
> > Transaction/ABORT: 2024-05-14 09:51:14.782223+00; dropped stats:
> > 2/16384/27512/0 2/16384/27515/0 2/16384/27516/0
>
> Can refcount be useful to know in this errcontext?
Thanks for looking at it!
Do you mean as part of the added errdetail_internal()? If so, yeah I think it's
a good idea (done that way in v2 attached).
> > Attached a tiny patch to report the stat that generates the error. The
> > patch uses
> > errdetail_internal() as the extra details don't seem to be useful to average
> > users.
>
> I think that's fine. Overall that looks like useful information for
> debugging, so no objections from here.
Thanks! BTW, I just realized that adding more details for this error has already
been mentioned in [1] (and Andres did propose a slightly different version).
[1]:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20240505160915.6boysum4f34siqct%40awork3.anarazel.de
Regards,
--
Bertrand Drouvot
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
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>From 0866e8252f2038f3fdbd9cfabb214461689210df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 09:10:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH v2] Log details for stats dropped more than once
Adding errdetail_internal() in pgstat_drop_entry_internal() to display the
PgStat_HashKey and the entry's refcount when the "can only drop stats once"
error is reported.
---
src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_shmem.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
100.0% src/backend/utils/activity/
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_shmem.c b/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_shmem.c
index 91591da395..0595c08d6e 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_shmem.c
@@ -785,7 +785,12 @@ pgstat_drop_entry_internal(PgStatShared_HashEntry *shent,
* backends to release their references.
*/
if (shent->dropped)
- elog(ERROR, "can only drop stats once");
+ ereport(ERROR,
+ errmsg("can only drop stats once"),
+ errdetail_internal("Stats kind=%s dboid=%u objoid=%u refcount=%u.",
+ pgstat_get_kind_info(shent->key.kind)->name,
+ shent->key.dboid, shent->key.objoid,
+ pg_atomic_read_u32(&shent->refcount)));
shent->dropped = true;
/* release refcount marking entry as not dropped */
--
2.34.1
