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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


--jg9kqX3osLGO+8A7--





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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
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From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v5 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
  49.8% doc/src/sgml/
   3.1% src/backend/catalog/
  25.8% src/backend/utils/adt/
   6.8% src/include/catalog/
   9.2% src/test/regress/expected/
   4.9% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index bb75ed1069b..86200553293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1195,6 +1209,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -5342,6 +5441,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index e54018004db..e005eaeb579 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 9185a8e6b83..77ee9222ccf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -708,6 +708,71 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns transactions statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		/* check if the backend type tracks statistics */
+		if (!pgstat_tracks_backend_bktype(beentry->st_backendType))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't use pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid() to avoid holding the
+		 * ProcArrayLock during each iteration.
+		 */
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend(local_beentry->proc_number);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 3579cec5744..6a686e93fdd 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5680,6 +5680,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 2b3cf6d8569..2b4ea519677 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index ea7f7846895..e3f55a4c0ea 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 65d8968c83e..e6b35593a95 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 3/3] Adding the pg_stat_backend_transaction view
@ 2025-08-09 14:22  Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Bertrand Drouvot @ 2025-08-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)

This view displays one row per server process, showing transaction statistics
related to the current activity of that process. It currently displays the pid,
the number of XIDs generated, the number of commits, the number of rollbacks and
the time at which these statistics were last reset.

It's built on top of a new function (pg_stat_get_backend_transactions()). The idea
is the same as pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_get_activity().

Adding documentation and tests.

XXX: Bump catversion
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml         | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |   9 +++
 src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c  |  57 +++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |   9 +++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |   6 ++
 src/test/regress/expected/stats.out  |  17 ++++
 src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql       |  10 +++
 7 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
  51.7% doc/src/sgml/
   3.2% src/backend/catalog/
  23.1% src/backend/utils/adt/
   7.0% src/include/catalog/
   9.6% src/test/regress/expected/
   5.1% src/test/regress/sql/

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3f4a27a736e..025641c2f70 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -320,6 +320,20 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname>
+       <indexterm><primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary></indexterm>
+      </entry>
+      <entry>
+       One row per server process, showing statistics related to
+       the current activity of that process, such as number of commits and
+       rollbacks.
+       See <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+       <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></link> for details.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname><indexterm><primary>pg_stat_replication</primary></indexterm></entry>
       <entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing statistics about
@@ -1172,6 +1186,91 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
    </note>
  </sect2>
 
+ <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-backend-transaction-view">
+  <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname></title>
+
+  <indexterm>
+   <primary>pg_stat_backend_transaction</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>
+   The <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view will have one row
+   per server process, showing statistics related to
+   the current activity of that process.
+  </para>
+
+  <table id="pg-stat-backend-transaction-view" xreflabel="pg_stat_backend_transaction">
+   <title><structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> View</title>
+   <tgroup cols="1">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Description
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>pid</structfield> <type>integer</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       Process ID of this backend
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xid_count</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of XID that have been generated by the backend. It does not take
+       into account virtual transaction ID on purpose.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_commit</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been committed.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>xact_rollback</structfield> <type>bigint</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       The number of transactions that have been rolled back.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+        <structfield>stats_reset</structfield> <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Time at which these statistics were last reset
+       </para></entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </table>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    The view does not return statistics for the checkpointer,
+    the background writer, the startup process and the autovacuum launcher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+ </sect2>
+
  <sect2 id="monitoring-pg-stat-replication-view">
   <title><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></title>
 
@@ -4921,6 +5020,22 @@ description | Waiting for a newly initialized WAL file to reach durable storage
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>pg_stat_get_backend_transactions</function> ( <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>setof record</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Returns a record of transaction statistics about the backend with the
+        specified process ID, or one record for each active backend in the system
+        if <literal>NULL</literal> is specified.  The fields returned are a
+        subset of those in the <structname>pg_stat_backend_transaction</structname> view.
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry id="pg-stat-get-backend-wal" role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 1b3c5a55882..ee3f653f360 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_stat_activity AS
         LEFT JOIN pg_database AS D ON (S.datid = D.oid)
         LEFT JOIN pg_authid AS U ON (S.usesysid = U.oid);
 
+CREATE VIEW pg_stat_backend_transaction AS
+    SELECT
+            S.pid,
+            S.xid_count,
+            S.xact_commit,
+            S.xact_rollback,
+            S.stats_reset
+    FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL) AS S;
+
 CREATE VIEW pg_stat_replication AS
     SELECT
             S.pid,
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index c756c2bebaa..fa92099e789 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -685,6 +685,63 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return (Datum) 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns statistics of PG backends.
+ */
+Datum
+pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+#define PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS	5
+	int			num_backends = pgstat_fetch_stat_numbackends();
+	int			curr_backend;
+	int			pid = PG_ARGISNULL(0) ? -1 : PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
+
+	InitMaterializedSRF(fcinfo, 0);
+
+	/* 1-based index */
+	for (curr_backend = 1; curr_backend <= num_backends; curr_backend++)
+	{
+		/* for each row */
+		Datum		values[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		bool		nulls[PG_STAT_GET_BACKEND_STATS_COLS] = {0};
+		LocalPgBackendStatus *local_beentry;
+		PgBackendStatus *beentry;
+		PgStat_Backend *backend_stats;
+
+		/* Get the next one in the list */
+		local_beentry = pgstat_get_local_beentry_by_index(curr_backend);
+		beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
+
+		/* If looking for specific PID, ignore all the others */
+		if (pid != -1 && beentry->st_procpid != pid)
+			continue;
+
+		backend_stats = pgstat_fetch_stat_backend_by_pid(beentry->st_procpid, NULL);
+
+		values[0] = Int32GetDatum(beentry->st_procpid);
+
+		if (!backend_stats)
+			continue;
+
+		values[1] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xid_count);
+		values[2] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_commit);
+		values[3] = Int64GetDatum(backend_stats->xact_rollback);
+
+		if (backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp != 0)
+			values[4] = TimestampTzGetDatum(backend_stats->stat_reset_timestamp);
+		else
+			nulls[4] = true;
+
+		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc, values, nulls);
+
+		/* If only a single backend was requested, and we found it, break. */
+		if (pid != -1)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return (Datum) 0;
+}
 
 Datum
 pg_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 118d6da1ace..24ec3d861a2 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5641,6 +5641,15 @@
   proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
   proargnames => '{pid,datid,pid,usesysid,application_name,state,query,wait_event_type,wait_event,xact_start,query_start,backend_start,state_change,client_addr,client_hostname,client_port,backend_xid,backend_xmin,backend_type,ssl,sslversion,sslcipher,sslbits,ssl_client_dn,ssl_client_serial,ssl_issuer_dn,gss_auth,gss_princ,gss_enc,gss_delegation,leader_pid,query_id}',
   prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_activity' },
+{ oid => '9555',
+  descr => 'statistics: statistics about currently active backends',
+  proname => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions', prorows => '100', proisstrict => 'f',
+  proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', proparallel => 'r',
+  prorettype => 'record', proargtypes => 'int4',
+  proallargtypes => '{int4,int4,int8,int8,int8,timestamptz}',
+  proargmodes => '{i,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{pid,pid,xid_count,xact_commit,xact_rollback,stats_reset}',
+  prosrc => 'pg_stat_get_backend_transactions' },
 { oid => '6318', descr => 'describe wait events',
   proname => 'pg_get_wait_events', procost => '10', prorows => '250',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 'v', prorettype => 'record',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 35e8aad7701..ae376f96998 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1847,6 +1847,12 @@ pg_stat_archiver| SELECT archived_count,
     last_failed_time,
     stats_reset
    FROM pg_stat_get_archiver() s(archived_count, last_archived_wal, last_archived_time, failed_count, last_failed_wal, last_failed_time, stats_reset);
+pg_stat_backend_transaction| SELECT pid,
+    xid_count,
+    xact_commit,
+    xact_rollback,
+    stats_reset
+   FROM pg_stat_get_backend_transactions(NULL::integer) s(pid, xid_count, xact_commit, xact_rollback, stats_reset);
 pg_stat_bgwriter| SELECT pg_stat_get_bgwriter_buf_written_clean() AS buffers_clean,
     pg_stat_get_bgwriter_maxwritten_clean() AS maxwritten_clean,
     pg_stat_get_buf_alloc() AS buffers_alloc,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 605f5070376..7079198bc06 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -135,11 +135,28 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+ pg_stat_force_next_flush 
+--------------------------
+ 
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 54e72866344..0d6a408c7b5 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -58,12 +58,22 @@ INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 10 WHERE id IN (1, 2);
 DELETE FROM trunc_stats_test1 WHERE id = 3;
 
+-- in passing, check that backend's commit is incrementing
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_before
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
 BEGIN;
 UPDATE trunc_stats_test1 SET id = id + 100;
 TRUNCATE trunc_stats_test1;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test1 DEFAULT VALUES;
 COMMIT;
 
+SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush();
+SELECT xact_commit AS xact_commit_after
+  FROM pg_stat_backend_transaction WHERE pid = pg_backend_pid() \gset
+
+SELECT :xact_commit_after > :xact_commit_before;
+
 -- use a savepoint: 1 insert, 1 live
 BEGIN;
 INSERT INTO trunc_stats_test2 DEFAULT VALUES;
-- 
2.34.1


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* [PATCH v1 2/2] Try to avoid a rewrite when adding a stored generated column
@ 2026-03-16 23:28  Alberto Piai <alberto.piai@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 647+ messages in thread

From: Alberto Piai @ 2026-03-16 23:28 UTC (permalink / raw)

This builds upon basic support for

... ALTER COLUMN ... ADD GENERATED ALWAYS AS (expr) STORED

If we can find a constraint which proves that the given column is
already always equal to the new generated column expression, skip the
expensive rewrite of the table.

The check constraint must use an equality operator which is mergejoinable, and
the expression must match exactly the generated column's default
expression.
---
 src/backend/catalog/pg_constraint.c       |  75 +++++++++++
 src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c          |  46 ++++---
 src/include/catalog/pg_constraint.h       |   2 +
 src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out | 155 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql      |  81 +++++++++++
 5 files changed, 339 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/pg_constraint.c b/src/backend/catalog/pg_constraint.c
index b12765ae691..8f207c4a79d 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/pg_constraint.c
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/pg_constraint.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include "access/genam.h"
 #include "access/gist.h"
 #include "access/htup_details.h"
+#include "access/relation.h"
 #include "access/sysattr.h"
 #include "access/table.h"
 #include "catalog/catalog.h"
@@ -29,6 +30,8 @@
 #include "catalog/pg_type.h"
 #include "commands/defrem.h"
 #include "common/int.h"
+#include "nodes/nodeFuncs.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "utils/array.h"
 #include "utils/builtins.h"
 #include "utils/fmgroids.h"
@@ -694,6 +697,78 @@ findDomainNotNullConstraint(Oid typid)
 	return retval;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Given a relation, an attnum and a (cooked) expression, this returns true if
+ * it finds a CHECK constraint which proves that the given column is equal to
+ * the expression.
+ *
+ * The constraint must use a mergejoinable operator for the type of the column,
+ * a concept used by the planner as well to infer equivalence classes on the
+ * terms in a query (see op_mergejoinable()).
+ *
+ * The expressions are compared structurally, so they must match exactly for
+ * this check to succeed.
+ */
+bool
+findStructuralCheckConstraintOnAttr(Oid relid, AttrNumber attnum,
+									const Node *target_expr)
+{
+	Relation	pg_constraint;
+	HeapTuple	conTup;
+	SysScanDesc scan;
+	ScanKeyData key;
+	bool		found = false;
+
+	pg_constraint = table_open(ConstraintRelationId, AccessShareLock);
+	ScanKeyInit(&key,
+				Anum_pg_constraint_conrelid,
+				BTEqualStrategyNumber, F_OIDEQ,
+				ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	scan = systable_beginscan(pg_constraint, ConstraintRelidTypidNameIndexId,
+							  true, NULL, 1, &key);
+
+	while (HeapTupleIsValid(conTup = systable_getnext(scan)))
+	{
+		Form_pg_constraint con = (Form_pg_constraint) GETSTRUCT(conTup);
+		char	   *conbin;
+		Datum		val;
+		Node	   *conexpr;
+
+		if (con->contype != CONSTRAINT_CHECK)
+			continue;
+		if (!con->convalidated)
+			continue;
+
+		val = SysCacheGetAttrNotNull(CONSTROID, conTup,
+									 Anum_pg_constraint_conbin);
+		conbin = TextDatumGetCString(val);
+		conexpr = stringToNode(conbin);
+
+		if (IsA(conexpr, OpExpr))
+		{
+			OpExpr	   *op = (OpExpr *) conexpr;
+
+			if (list_length(op->args) == 2 && IsA(linitial(op->args), Var))
+			{
+				Var		   *var = (Var *) linitial(op->args);
+
+				if (var->varattno == attnum &&
+					op_mergejoinable(op->opno, exprType((Node *) var)) &&
+					equal(lsecond(op->args), target_expr))
+				{
+					found = true;
+					break;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	systable_endscan(scan);
+	table_close(pg_constraint, AccessShareLock);
+
+	return found;
+}
+
 /*
  * Given a pg_constraint tuple for a not-null constraint, return the column
  * number it is for.
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
index e7386e81b07..005fbf78fbf 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
@@ -8863,6 +8863,7 @@ ATExecAddGeneratedAsExprStored(AlteredTableInfo *tab,
 	NewColumnValue *newval;
 	RawColumnDefault *rawEnt;
 	Relation	pg_attribute;
+	bool		rewrite;
 
 	Assert(def->raw_expr != NULL);
 	Assert(def->cooked_expr == NULL);
@@ -8926,29 +8927,36 @@ ATExecAddGeneratedAsExprStored(AlteredTableInfo *tab,
 	/* Make above changes visible */
 	CommandCounterIncrement();
 
-	/*
-	 * Clear all the missing values if we're rewriting the table, since this
-	 * renders them pointless.
-	 */
-	RelationClearMissing(rel);
-
-	/* Make above changes visible */
-	CommandCounterIncrement();
-
-	/* Drop any pg_statistic entry for the column */
-	RemoveStatistics(RelationGetRelid(rel), attnum);
-
 	/* Build a concrete expression for the new default (generated) value */
 	defval = (Expr *) build_column_default(rel, attnum);
 	defval = expression_planner(defval);
 
-	/* Schedule a rewrite */
-	newval = palloc0_object(NewColumnValue);
-	newval->attnum = attnum;
-	newval->expr = defval;
-	newval->is_generated = true;
-	tab->newvals = lappend(tab->newvals, newval);
-	tab->rewrite |= AT_REWRITE_DEFAULT_VAL;
+	rewrite = !findStructuralCheckConstraintOnAttr(RelationGetRelid(rel),
+												   attnum,
+												   (Node *) defval);
+
+	if (rewrite)
+	{
+		/*
+		 * Clear all the missing values if we're rewriting the table, since
+		 * this renders them pointless.
+		 */
+		RelationClearMissing(rel);
+
+		/* Make above changes visible */
+		CommandCounterIncrement();
+
+		/* Drop any pg_statistic entry for the column */
+		RemoveStatistics(RelationGetRelid(rel), attnum);
+
+		/* Schedule a rewrite */
+		newval = palloc0_object(NewColumnValue);
+		newval->attnum = attnum;
+		newval->expr = defval;
+		newval->is_generated = true;
+		tab->newvals = lappend(tab->newvals, newval);
+		tab->rewrite |= AT_REWRITE_DEFAULT_VAL;
+	}
 
 	InvokeObjectPostAlterHook(RelationRelationId,
 							  RelationGetRelid(rel), attnum);
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_constraint.h b/src/include/catalog/pg_constraint.h
index 1b7fedf1750..7ac9e00c28b 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_constraint.h
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_constraint.h
@@ -266,6 +266,8 @@ extern char *ChooseConstraintName(const char *name1, const char *name2,
 extern HeapTuple findNotNullConstraintAttnum(Oid relid, AttrNumber attnum);
 extern HeapTuple findNotNullConstraint(Oid relid, const char *colname);
 extern HeapTuple findDomainNotNullConstraint(Oid typid);
+extern bool findStructuralCheckConstraintOnAttr(Oid relid, AttrNumber attnum,
+												const Node *target_expr);
 extern AttrNumber extractNotNullColumn(HeapTuple constrTup);
 extern bool AdjustNotNullInheritance(Oid relid, AttrNumber attnum, const char *new_conname,
 									 bool is_local, bool is_no_inherit, bool is_notvalid);
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out b/src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out
index 75f64628aef..4062f985c5a 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out
@@ -4943,6 +4943,157 @@ select :idx_filenode_before != :idx_filenode_after as did_rewrite_idx;
  t
 (1 row)
 
+-- turning a regular column into a stored generated column
+-- without rewriting the table (when a check constraint proves it isn't needed)
+create table testgen.t4 (a int, b int not null);
+insert into testgen.t4 (a, b) select x, x * 2 from generate_series(0, 5) x;
+alter table testgen.t4 add constraint chk_gen_clause check (b = a * 2);
+select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.t4') as t4_filenode_before \gset
+alter table testgen.t4 alter column b add generated always as (a * 2) stored;
+select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.t4') as t4_filenode_after \gset
+select :t4_filenode_before = :t4_filenode_after as did_skip_rewrite;
+ did_skip_rewrite 
+------------------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
+\d+ testgen.t4
+                                                 Table "testgen.t4"
+ Column |  Type   | Collation | Nullable |              Default               | Storage | Stats target | Description 
+--------+---------+-----------+----------+------------------------------------+---------+--------------+-------------
+ a      | integer |           |          |                                    | plain   |              | 
+ b      | integer |           | not null | generated always as (a * 2) stored | plain   |              | 
+Check constraints:
+    "chk_gen_clause" CHECK (b = (a * 2))
+Not-null constraints:
+    "t4_b_not_null" NOT NULL "b"
+
+drop table testgen.t4;
+-- turning a regular column into a stored generated column
+-- same as the previous case, but a rewrite happens since the constraint is not
+-- valid
+create table testgen.t4 (a int, b int not null);
+insert into testgen.t4 (a, b) select x, x * 2 from generate_series(0, 5) x;
+alter table testgen.t4 add constraint chk_gen_clause check (b = a * 2) not valid;
+select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.t4') as t4_filenode_before \gset
+alter table testgen.t4 alter column b add generated always as (a * 2) stored;
+select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.t4') as t4_filenode_after \gset
+select :t4_filenode_before != :t4_filenode_after as did_rewrite;
+ did_rewrite 
+-------------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
+\d+ testgen.t4
+                                                 Table "testgen.t4"
+ Column |  Type   | Collation | Nullable |              Default               | Storage | Stats target | Description 
+--------+---------+-----------+----------+------------------------------------+---------+--------------+-------------
+ a      | integer |           |          |                                    | plain   |              | 
+ b      | integer |           | not null | generated always as (a * 2) stored | plain   |              | 
+Check constraints:
+    "chk_gen_clause" CHECK (b = (a * 2)) NOT VALID
+Not-null constraints:
+    "t4_b_not_null" NOT NULL "b"
+
+drop table testgen.t4;
+-- turning a regular column into a stored generated column
+-- same as the previous case, but a rewrite happens since the constraint
+-- operator is not mergejoinable
+create table testgen.t4 (a int, b int not null);
+insert into testgen.t4 (a, b) select x, x * 2 from generate_series(0, 5) x;
+alter table testgen.t4 add constraint chk_gen_clause check (b >= a * 2);
+select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.t4') as t4_filenode_before \gset
+alter table testgen.t4 alter column b add generated always as (a * 3) stored;
+select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.t4') as t4_filenode_after \gset
+select :t4_filenode_before != :t4_filenode_after as did_rewrite;
+ did_rewrite 
+-------------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
+\d+ testgen.t4
+                                                 Table "testgen.t4"
+ Column |  Type   | Collation | Nullable |              Default               | Storage | Stats target | Description 
+--------+---------+-----------+----------+------------------------------------+---------+--------------+-------------
+ a      | integer |           |          |                                    | plain   |              | 
+ b      | integer |           | not null | generated always as (a * 3) stored | plain   |              | 
+Check constraints:
+    "chk_gen_clause" CHECK (b >= (a * 2))
+Not-null constraints:
+    "t4_b_not_null" NOT NULL "b"
+
+drop table testgen.t4;
+-- test the whole process for adding a stored generated column without
+-- long-lived exclusive locks
+create table testgen.t5 (a int);
+select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.t5') as t5_filenode_before \gset
+insert into testgen.t5 select x from generate_series(1, 5) x;
+alter table testgen.t5 add column b int;
+-- take care of new and updated columns
+create function testgen.gen () returns trigger language plpgsql as $$
+begin
+  new.b = new.a * 2; return new;
+end
+$$;
+create trigger testgen_gen
+    before insert or update on testgen.t5
+    for each row execute function testgen.gen();
+-- add the constraint as not valid: enforced only for new and updated rows
+begin;
+alter table testgen.t5
+    add constraint chk_gen_clause check (b = a * 2) not valid;
+select locktype, mode from pg_locks
+  where relation = 'testgen.t5'::regclass and granted;
+ locktype |        mode         
+----------+---------------------
+ relation | AccessExclusiveLock
+(1 row)
+
+commit;
+insert into testgen.t5 (a) values (100), (200), (300);
+-- backfill existing rows at the appropriate pace
+update testgen.t5 set b = a * 2 where b is null;
+-- validate: this scans the table, but without an exclusive lock
+begin;
+alter table testgen.t5 validate constraint chk_gen_clause;
+select locktype, mode from pg_locks
+  where relation = 'testgen.t5'::regclass and granted;
+ locktype |           mode           
+----------+--------------------------
+ relation | ShareUpdateExclusiveLock
+(1 row)
+
+commit;
+-- now the schema update, which skips the rewrite because of the check
+begin;
+drop trigger testgen_gen on testgen.t5;
+alter table testgen.t5 alter column b
+    add generated always as (a * 2) stored;
+select locktype, mode from pg_locks
+where relation = 'testgen.t5'::regclass and granted;
+ locktype |        mode         
+----------+---------------------
+ relation | AccessShareLock
+ relation | AccessExclusiveLock
+(2 rows)
+
+commit;
+select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.t5') as t5_filenode_after \gset
+select :t5_filenode_before = :t5_filenode_after as did_skip_rewrite;
+ did_skip_rewrite 
+------------------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
+\d+ testgen.t5
+                                                 Table "testgen.t5"
+ Column |  Type   | Collation | Nullable |              Default               | Storage | Stats target | Description 
+--------+---------+-----------+----------+------------------------------------+---------+--------------+-------------
+ a      | integer |           |          |                                    | plain   |              | 
+ b      | integer |           |          | generated always as (a * 2) stored | plain   |              | 
+Check constraints:
+    "chk_gen_clause" CHECK (b = (a * 2))
+
 -- tests for invalid invocations
 alter table doesnotexist alter column foo
   add generated always as (bar * 2) stored;
@@ -4980,8 +5131,10 @@ alter table testgen.tpart alter column b add generated always as (a * 2) stored;
 ERROR:  ALTER action ALTER COLUMN ... ADD GENERATED ALWAYS AS (...) STORED cannot be performed on relation "tpart"
 DETAIL:  This operation is not supported for partitioned tables.
 drop schema testgen cascade;
-NOTICE:  drop cascades to 4 other objects
+NOTICE:  drop cascades to 6 other objects
 DETAIL:  drop cascades to table testgen.t3
+drop cascades to table testgen.t5
+drop cascades to function testgen.gen()
 drop cascades to table testgen.t1
 drop cascades to table testgen.t2
 drop cascades to table testgen.tpart
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql
index d776595a6ed..821f04e8073 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql
@@ -3197,6 +3197,87 @@ alter table testgen.t3 alter column b add generated always as (a * 2) stored;
 select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.idx_b') as idx_filenode_after \gset
 select :idx_filenode_before != :idx_filenode_after as did_rewrite_idx;
 
+-- turning a regular column into a stored generated column
+-- without rewriting the table (when a check constraint proves it isn't needed)
+create table testgen.t4 (a int, b int not null);
+insert into testgen.t4 (a, b) select x, x * 2 from generate_series(0, 5) x;
+alter table testgen.t4 add constraint chk_gen_clause check (b = a * 2);
+select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.t4') as t4_filenode_before \gset
+alter table testgen.t4 alter column b add generated always as (a * 2) stored;
+select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.t4') as t4_filenode_after \gset
+select :t4_filenode_before = :t4_filenode_after as did_skip_rewrite;
+\d+ testgen.t4
+drop table testgen.t4;
+
+-- turning a regular column into a stored generated column
+-- same as the previous case, but a rewrite happens since the constraint is not
+-- valid
+create table testgen.t4 (a int, b int not null);
+insert into testgen.t4 (a, b) select x, x * 2 from generate_series(0, 5) x;
+alter table testgen.t4 add constraint chk_gen_clause check (b = a * 2) not valid;
+select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.t4') as t4_filenode_before \gset
+alter table testgen.t4 alter column b add generated always as (a * 2) stored;
+select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.t4') as t4_filenode_after \gset
+select :t4_filenode_before != :t4_filenode_after as did_rewrite;
+\d+ testgen.t4
+drop table testgen.t4;
+
+-- turning a regular column into a stored generated column
+-- same as the previous case, but a rewrite happens since the constraint
+-- operator is not mergejoinable
+create table testgen.t4 (a int, b int not null);
+insert into testgen.t4 (a, b) select x, x * 2 from generate_series(0, 5) x;
+alter table testgen.t4 add constraint chk_gen_clause check (b >= a * 2);
+select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.t4') as t4_filenode_before \gset
+alter table testgen.t4 alter column b add generated always as (a * 3) stored;
+select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.t4') as t4_filenode_after \gset
+select :t4_filenode_before != :t4_filenode_after as did_rewrite;
+\d+ testgen.t4
+drop table testgen.t4;
+
+-- test the whole process for adding a stored generated column without
+-- long-lived exclusive locks
+create table testgen.t5 (a int);
+select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.t5') as t5_filenode_before \gset
+insert into testgen.t5 select x from generate_series(1, 5) x;
+alter table testgen.t5 add column b int;
+-- take care of new and updated columns
+create function testgen.gen () returns trigger language plpgsql as $$
+begin
+  new.b = new.a * 2; return new;
+end
+$$;
+create trigger testgen_gen
+    before insert or update on testgen.t5
+    for each row execute function testgen.gen();
+-- add the constraint as not valid: enforced only for new and updated rows
+begin;
+alter table testgen.t5
+    add constraint chk_gen_clause check (b = a * 2) not valid;
+select locktype, mode from pg_locks
+  where relation = 'testgen.t5'::regclass and granted;
+commit;
+insert into testgen.t5 (a) values (100), (200), (300);
+-- backfill existing rows at the appropriate pace
+update testgen.t5 set b = a * 2 where b is null;
+-- validate: this scans the table, but without an exclusive lock
+begin;
+alter table testgen.t5 validate constraint chk_gen_clause;
+select locktype, mode from pg_locks
+  where relation = 'testgen.t5'::regclass and granted;
+commit;
+-- now the schema update, which skips the rewrite because of the check
+begin;
+drop trigger testgen_gen on testgen.t5;
+alter table testgen.t5 alter column b
+    add generated always as (a * 2) stored;
+select locktype, mode from pg_locks
+where relation = 'testgen.t5'::regclass and granted;
+commit;
+select pg_relation_filenode('testgen.t5') as t5_filenode_after \gset
+select :t5_filenode_before = :t5_filenode_after as did_skip_rewrite;
+\d+ testgen.t5
+
 -- tests for invalid invocations
 alter table doesnotexist alter column foo
   add generated always as (bar * 2) stored;
-- 
2.51.2


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