(moved to -hackers) On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:55 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > This last point is more oriented towards other PG developers: I wonder > if we ought to display buffer statistics for plan time, for EXPLAIN > (BUFFERS). That'd surely make it easier to discern cases where we > e.g. access the index and scan a lot of the index from cases where we > hit some CPU time issue. We should easily be able to get that data, I > think, we already maintain it, we'd just need to compute the diff > between pgBufferUsage before / after planning.
That would be quite interesting to have. I attach as a reference a quick POC patch to implement it: # explain (analyze, buffers) select * from pg_stat_activity; QUERY PLAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hash Left Join (cost=2.25..3.80 rows=100 width=440) (actual time=0.259..0.276 rows=6 loops=1) Hash Cond: (s.usesysid = u.oid) Buffers: shared hit=5 -> Hash Left Join (cost=1.05..2.32 rows=100 width=376) (actual time=0.226..0.236 rows=6 loops=1) Hash Cond: (s.datid = d.oid) Buffers: shared hit=4 -> Function Scan on pg_stat_get_activity s (cost=0.00..1.00 rows=100 width=312) (actual time=0.148..0.151 rows=6 loop -> Hash (cost=1.02..1.02 rows=2 width=68) (actual time=0.034..0.034 rows=5 loops=1) Buckets: 1024 Batches: 1 Memory Usage: 9kB Buffers: shared hit=1 -> Seq Scan on pg_database d (cost=0.00..1.02 rows=2 width=68) (actual time=0.016..0.018 rows=5 loops=1) Buffers: shared hit=1 -> Hash (cost=1.09..1.09 rows=9 width=68) (actual time=0.015..0.015 rows=9 loops=1) Buckets: 1024 Batches: 1 Memory Usage: 9kB Buffers: shared hit=1 -> Seq Scan on pg_authid u (cost=0.00..1.09 rows=9 width=68) (actual time=0.004..0.008 rows=9 loops=1) Buffers: shared hit=1 Planning Time: 1.902 ms Buffers: shared hit=37 read=29 I/O Timings: read=0.506 Execution Time: 0.547 ms (21 rows) Note that there's a related discussion in the "Planning counters in pg_stat_statements" thread, on whether to also compute buffers from planning or not.
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