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There's a number of SLRU caches used to access important data like clog, commit timestamps, multixact, asynchronous notifications, etc. Until now we had no easy way to monitor these shared caches, compute hit ratios, number of reads/writes etc. This commit extends the statistics collector to track this information for a predefined list of SLRUs, and also introduces a new system view pg_stat_slru displaying the data. The list of built-in SLRUs is fixed, but additional SLRUs may be defined in extensions. Unfortunately, there's no suitable registry of SLRUs, so this patch simply defines a fixed list of SLRUs with entries for the built-in ones and one entry for all additional SLRUs. Extensions adding their own SLRU are fairly rare, so this seems acceptable. This patch only allows monitoring of SLRUs, not tuning. The SLRU sizes are still fixed (hard-coded in the code) and it's not entirely clear which of the SLRUs might need a GUC to tune size. In a way, allowing us to determine that is one of the goals of this patch. Bump catversion as the patch introduces new functions and system view. Author: Tomas Vondra Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200119143707.gyinppnigokesjok@development
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