Re: Lock Wait Statistics (next commitfest)

What happened to this patch?

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Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Where I work they make extensive use of Postgresql. One of the things 
> they typically want to know about are lock waits. Out of the box in 
> there is not much in the way of tracking for such, particularly in older 
> versions. The view pg_stats is fine for stuff happening *now*, but 
> typically I find I'm being asked about something that happened last 
> night...
> 
> Now for those platforms with dtrace there is a lock wait probe, useful - 
> but not for those of us on Linux! There is the conf option to log lock 
> waits > deadlock timeout (8.3 onwards), and this is great, but I 
> wondered if having something like this available as part of the stats 
> module would be useful.
> 
> So here is my initial attempt at this, at this point merely to spark 
> discussion (attached patch)
> 
> I have followed some of the ideas from the function execution stats, but 
> locks required some special treatment.
> 
> - new parameter track_locks (maybe should be track_lock_waits?)
> - new hash locks attached to stats dbentry
> - several new stat*lock c functions
> - new view pg_stat_lock_waits
> - new attributes for pg_stat_database
> 
> This version has simply exposed the locktag structure in the view along 
> with corresponding #waits and wait time. This should probably get 
> reformed to look a little more like pg_locks. I figured this is easily 
> doable along with the no doubt many changes coming from revew comments.
> 
> Also I did not do any clever amalgamation of transaction lock waits - 
> there is probably gonna be a lot of those and keeping the detail is 
> unlikely to be useful. It would be easy to collect them all together in 
> one transaction entry.
> 
> regards
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 

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