Waiting for 9.2 – pg_stat_statements improvements

Three interesting patches:

  • On 27th of March, Robert Haas committed patch:
    New GUC, track_iotiming, to track I/O timings.
     
    Currently, the only way to see the numbers this gathers is via
    EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS), but the plan is to add visibility through
    the stats collector and pg_stat_statements in subsequent patches.
     
    Ants Aasma, reviewed by Greg Smith, with some further changes by me.
  • On 27th of March, Robert Haas committed patch:
    Expose track_iotiming information via pg_stat_statements.
     
    Ants Aasma, reviewed by Greg Smith, with very minor tweaks by me.
  • On 29th of March, Tom Lane committed patch:

    Improve contrib/pg_stat_statements to lump "similar" queries together.
     
    pg_stat_statements now hashes selected fields of the analyzed parse tree
    to assign a "fingerprint" to each query, and groups all queries with the
    same fingerprint into a single entry in the pg_stat_statements view.
    In practice it is expected that queries with the same fingerprint will be
    equivalent except for values of literal constants.  To make the display
    more useful, such constants are replaced by "?" in the displayed query
    strings.
     
    This mechanism currently supports only optimizable queries (SELECT,
    INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE).  Utility commands are still matched on the
    basis of their literal query strings.
     
    There remain some open questions about how to deal with utility statements
    that contain optimizable queries (such as EXPLAIN and SELECT INTO) and how
    to deal with expiring speculative hashtable entries that are made to save
    the normalized form of a query string.  However, fixing these issues should
    require only localized changes, and since there are other open patches
    involving contrib/pg_stat_statements, it seems best to go ahead and commit
    what we've got.
     
    Peter Geoghegan, reviewed by Daniel Farina

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Waiting for 8.4 – pg_stat_statements

On 4th of January, Tom Lane committed patch by Takahiro Itagaki, which adds new contrib module – pg_stat_statements:

Log Message:
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Add contrib/pg_stat_statements for server-wide tracking of statement execution
statistics.
 
Takahiro Itagaki

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