Hi,
(2013/09/04 13:07), Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Satoshi Nagayasu wrote:
As you may know, this file could be handreds of MB in size, because
pgstat.stat holds all access statistics in each database, and it needs
to read/write an entire pgstat.stat frequently.
As a result, pgstat.stat often generates massive I/O operation,
particularly when having a large number of tables in the database.
We already changed it:
>
> commit 187492b6c2e8cafc5b39063ca3b67846e8155d24
> Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org>
> Date: Mon Feb 18 17:56:08 2013 -0300
>
> Split pgstat file in smaller pieces
Thanks for the comments. I forgot to mention that.
Yes, we have already split single pgstat.stat file into
several pieces.
However, we still need to read/write large amount of statistics
data when we have a large number of tables in single database
or multiple databases being accessed. Right?
I think the issue here is that it is necessary to write/read
statistics data even it's not actually changed.
So, I'm wondering how we can minimize read/write operations
on these statistics data files with using heap and btree.
Regards,
commit 187492b6c2e8cafc5b39063ca3b67846e8155d24
Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: Mon Feb 18 17:56:08 2013 -0300
Split pgstat file in smaller pieces
We now write one file per database and one global file, instead of
having the whole thing in a single huge file. This reduces the I/O that
must be done when partial data is required -- which is all the time,
because each process only needs information on its own database anyway.
Also, the autovacuum launcher does not need data about tables and
functions in each database; having the global stats for all DBs is
enough.
Catalog version bumped because we have a new subdir under PGDATA.
Author: Tomas Vondra. Some rework by Álvaro
Testing by Jeff Janes
Other discussion by Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane.
I don't oppose further tweaking, of course, but I wonder if you are
considering these changes.
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Satoshi Nagayasu <sn...@uptime.jp>
Uptime Technologies, LLC. http://www.uptime.jp
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