[HACKERS] ps_status on fastpath

2010-12-17 Thread Alvaro Herrera
I noticed that the fastpath code doesn't update ps_status, which would
be harmless except that it leads to idle in transaction being logged
in log_line_prefix for the command tag.

Are there objections to applying this?

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Re: [HACKERS] ps_status on fastpath

2010-12-17 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org writes:
 I noticed that the fastpath code doesn't update ps_status, which would
 be harmless except that it leads to idle in transaction being logged
 in log_line_prefix for the command tag.

 Are there objections to applying this?

Hm, what about pgstat_report_activity()?

Is anyone concerned about the added overhead for fastpath calls?

regards, tom lane

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Re: [HACKERS] ps_status on fastpath

2010-12-17 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie dic 17 12:41:06 -0300 2010:
 Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org writes:
  I noticed that the fastpath code doesn't update ps_status, which would
  be harmless except that it leads to idle in transaction being logged
  in log_line_prefix for the command tag.
 
  Are there objections to applying this?
 
 Hm, what about pgstat_report_activity()?

I wasn't sure about that, because of the overhead, but now that I look
at it, it's supposed to be cheaper than changing the ps_status in some
cases, so I guess there's no harm.

The other argument to support the case that this should be done is that
the docs suggest that you should use prepared statements instead, which
do have the reporting overhead.

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Re: [HACKERS] ps_status on fastpath

2010-12-17 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes:
 Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie dic 17 12:41:06 -0300 2010:
 Hm, what about pgstat_report_activity()?

 I wasn't sure about that, because of the overhead, but now that I look
 at it, it's supposed to be cheaper than changing the ps_status in some
 cases, so I guess there's no harm.

Yeah, if we can afford a possible kernel call to set ps status, it
doesn't seem like pgstat_report_activity should be a problem.  I'm
also of the opinion that more people look at pg_stat_activity than
ps output these days.

regards, tom lane

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Re: [HACKERS] ps_status on fastpath

2010-12-17 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie dic 17 16:25:17 -0300 2010:
 Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes:
  Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie dic 17 12:41:06 -0300 2010:
  Hm, what about pgstat_report_activity()?
 
  I wasn't sure about that, because of the overhead, but now that I look
  at it, it's supposed to be cheaper than changing the ps_status in some
  cases, so I guess there's no harm.
 
 Yeah, if we can afford a possible kernel call to set ps status, it
 doesn't seem like pgstat_report_activity should be a problem.  I'm
 also of the opinion that more people look at pg_stat_activity than
 ps output these days.

Well, actually, if the functions are cheap, presumably they aren't going
to stay for much time in either status report; what I'm after is fixing
the log_line_prefix stuff (%i I think it is).

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Re: [HACKERS] ps_status on fastpath

2010-12-17 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie dic 17 12:41:06 -0300 2010:
 Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org writes:
  I noticed that the fastpath code doesn't update ps_status, which would
  be harmless except that it leads to idle in transaction being logged
  in log_line_prefix for the command tag.
 
  Are there objections to applying this?
 
 Hm, what about pgstat_report_activity()?

Just noticed that it's already handled in postgres.c, before calling
HandleFunctionRequest.  Probably not worth messing with.

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Re: [HACKERS] ps_status on fastpath

2010-12-17 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes:
 Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie dic 17 12:41:06 -0300 2010:
 Hm, what about pgstat_report_activity()?

 Just noticed that it's already handled in postgres.c, before calling
 HandleFunctionRequest.  Probably not worth messing with.

Ah.  Well, the ps_status update should be adjacent to the other one,
not off in some other module altogether.

regards, tom lane

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Re: [HACKERS] ps_status on fastpath

2010-12-17 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie dic 17 18:21:48 -0300 2010:
 Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes:
  Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie dic 17 12:41:06 -0300 2010:
  Hm, what about pgstat_report_activity()?
 
  Just noticed that it's already handled in postgres.c, before calling
  HandleFunctionRequest.  Probably not worth messing with.
 
 Ah.  Well, the ps_status update should be adjacent to the other one,
 not off in some other module altogether.

Agreed -- committed that way.

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