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From: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <[email protected]>
To: Masahiko Sawada <[email protected]>
Cc: Anthonin Bonnefoy <[email protected]>
Cc: Alena Rybakina <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Fix parallel vacuum buffer usage reporting
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 16:10:39 +0300
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Hi,

On Fri, 10 May 2024 at 19:09, Masahiko Sawada <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 7:26 PM Nazir Bilal Yavuz <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thank you for working on this!
> >
> > On Wed, 1 May 2024 at 06:37, Masahiko Sawada <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thank you for further testing! I've pushed the patch.
> >
> > I realized a behaviour change while looking at 'Use pgBufferUsage for
> > block reporting in analyze' thread [1]. Since that change applies here
> > as well, I thought it is better to mention it here.
> >
> > Before this commit, VacuumPageMiss did not count the blocks if its
> > read was already completed by other backends [2]. Now,
> > 'pgBufferUsage.local_blks_read + pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_read'
> > counts every block attempted to be read; possibly double counting if
> > someone else has already completed the read.
>
> True. IIUC there is such a difference only in HEAD but not in v15 and
> v16. The following comment in WaitReadBuffers() says that it's a
> traditional behavior that we count blocks as read even if someone else
> has already completed its I/O:
>
>     /*
>      * We count all these blocks as read by this backend.  This is traditional
>      * behavior, but might turn out to be not true if we find that someone
>      * else has beaten us and completed the read of some of these blocks.  In
>      * that case the system globally double-counts, but we traditionally don't
>      * count this as a "hit", and we don't have a separate counter for "miss,
>      * but another backend completed the read".
>      */
>
> So I think using pgBufferUsage for (parallel) vacuum is a legitimate
> usage and makes it more consistent with other parallel operations.

That sounds logical. Thank you for the clarification.

-- 
Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft






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