pgstat: store statistics in shared memory.

Previously the statistics collector received statistics updates via UDP and
shared statistics data by writing them out to temporary files regularly. These
files can reach tens of megabytes and are written out up to twice a
second. This has repeatedly prevented us from adding additional useful
statistics.

Now statistics are stored in shared memory. Statistics for variable-numbered
objects are stored in a dshash hashtable (backed by dynamic shared
memory). Fixed-numbered stats are stored in plain shared memory.

The header for pgstat.c contains an overview of the architecture.

The stats collector is not needed anymore, remove it.

By utilizing the transactional statistics drop infrastructure introduced in a
prior commit statistics entries cannot "leak" anymore. Previously leaked
statistics were dropped by pgstat_vacuum_stat(), called from [auto-]vacuum. On
systems with many small relations pgstat_vacuum_stat() could be quite
expensive.

Now that replicas drop statistics entries for dropped objects, it is not
necessary anymore to reset stats when starting from a cleanly shut down
replica.

Subsequent commits will perform some further code cleanup, adapt docs and add
tests.

Bumps PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID.

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-By: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> (in a much earlier version)
Reviewed-By: Arthur Zakirov <a.zakirov@postgrespro.ru> (in a much earlier version)
Reviewed-By: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> (in a much earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220303021600.hs34ghqcw6zcokdh@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220308205351.2xcn6k4x5yivcxyd@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210319235115.y3wz7hpnnrshdyv6@alap3.anarazel.de

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/postinit.c b/src/backend/utils/init/postinit.c
index 342169b1958..a85c2e0260d 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/postinit.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/postinit.c
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ static void StatementTimeoutHandler(void);
 static void LockTimeoutHandler(void);
 static void IdleInTransactionSessionTimeoutHandler(void);
 static void IdleSessionTimeoutHandler(void);
+static void IdleStatsUpdateTimeoutHandler(void);
 static void ClientCheckTimeoutHandler(void);
 static bool ThereIsAtLeastOneRole(void);
 static void process_startup_options(Port *port, bool am_superuser);
@@ -725,6 +726,8 @@ InitPostgres(const char *in_dbname, Oid dboid, const char *username,
 						IdleInTransactionSessionTimeoutHandler);
 		RegisterTimeout(IDLE_SESSION_TIMEOUT, IdleSessionTimeoutHandler);
 		RegisterTimeout(CLIENT_CONNECTION_CHECK_TIMEOUT, ClientCheckTimeoutHandler);
+		RegisterTimeout(IDLE_STATS_UPDATE_TIMEOUT,
+						IdleStatsUpdateTimeoutHandler);
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -752,6 +755,7 @@ InitPostgres(const char *in_dbname, Oid dboid, const char *username,
 		 * Use before_shmem_exit() so that ShutdownXLOG() can rely on DSM
 		 * segments etc to work (which in turn is required for pgstats).
 		 */
+		before_shmem_exit(pgstat_before_server_shutdown, 0);
 		before_shmem_exit(ShutdownXLOG, 0);
 	}
 
@@ -1335,6 +1339,14 @@ IdleSessionTimeoutHandler(void)
 }
 
 static void
+IdleStatsUpdateTimeoutHandler(void)
+{
+	IdleStatsUpdateTimeoutPending = true;
+	InterruptPending = true;
+	SetLatch(MyLatch);
+}
+
+static void
 ClientCheckTimeoutHandler(void)
 {
 	CheckClientConnectionPending = true;