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From: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Cc: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Conflicting updates of command progress
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:42:35 +0200
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Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com> wrote:

> On 2025/04/15 2:13, Sami Imseih wrote:
> >> While working on [1] I realized that some field of pg_stat_progress_cluste has
> >> weird value.
> 
> I ran into the same issue while working on [2], and eventually had to
> withdraw that patch because of it.

Have you considered reporting the progress of each command separately?

I think that can be implemented by moving the progress related fields from
PgBackendStatus into a new structure and by teaching the backend to insert a
new instance of that structure into a shared hash table (dshash.c) whenever a
command that needs progress reporting is being started.

pgstat.c uses such a hash table for various statistics objects, however it's
probably not a good idea to adjust this infrastructure by simply adding a new
object kind (e.g. PGSTAT_KIND_COMMAND). I think that pgstat.c is designed for
frequent updates of backend-local statistics and less frequent flushes
(e.g. at command completion) to the shared memory. That's not suitable for
progress reporting.

> [2] https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/5282/

-- 
Antonin Houska
Web: https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com





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