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Subject: pg_stat_io clarifications: background worker, writes and reads
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 22:26:22 +0200 (CEST)
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Hello list,
what is the "background worker" in the pg_stat_io statistics view? I'm
reading the documentation but can't figure this one out knowing that it is
not autovacuum or bgwriter. And I'm not aware of any extension I might
have with registered background worker.
Additionally, how can it be evictions > writes? I would expect every
eviction to cause a write.
Finally about "hits", I understand they are reads found in shared_buffers,
so they never registered into the "reads" counter. So is "reads" in
pg_stat_io the equivalent to misses, i.e. the opposite of "hits", the read
attempts not found in the shared_buffers, that needed to be fetched from
the disk (or OS buffercache)?
backend_type | object | context | reads | read_time | writes | write_time | writebacks | writeback_time | extends | extend_time | op_bytes | hits | evictions | reuses | fsyncs | fsync_time | stats_reset
-------------------+---------------+---------+---------+-------------+--------+------------+------------+----------------+---------+-------------+----------+-----------+-----------+--------+--------+------------+-------------------------------
background worker | relation | normal | 5139575 | 2196288.011 | 63277 | 1766.94 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8192 | 876913705 | 5139653 | | 0 | 0 | 2024-04-08 08:50:02.971192+00
Thank you in advance,
Dimitris
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