Re: Show WAL write and fsync stats in pg_stat_io

On Tue, 31 Oct 2023 at 16:57, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 09:28, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> >
> > And perhaps just putting that everything that calls
> > pgstat_count_io_op_time() under track_io_timing is just natural?
> > What's the performance regression you would expect if both WAL and
> > block I/O are controlled by that, still one would expect only one of
> > them?
>
> I will check these and I hope I will come back with something meaningful.

I applied the patches on upstream postgres and then run pgbench for each available clock sources couple of times:

# Set fsync = off and track_io_timing = on

# pgbench -i -s 100 test
# pgbench -M prepared -c16 -j8 -f <( echo "SELECT pg_logical_emit_message(true, \:client_id::text, '1234567890');") -T60 test

Results are: