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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml6
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml5
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index acc6e2bc316..49d4bb13b9e 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -3390,7 +3390,8 @@ SELECT pid, wait_event_type, wait_event FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE wait_event i
</para>
<para>
Time spent reading data file blocks by backends in this database,
- in milliseconds
+ in milliseconds (if <xref linkend="guc-track-io-timing"/> is enabled,
+ otherwise zero)
</para></entry>
</row>
@@ -3400,7 +3401,8 @@ SELECT pid, wait_event_type, wait_event FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE wait_event i
</para>
<para>
Time spent writing data file blocks by backends in this database,
- in milliseconds
+ in milliseconds (if <xref linkend="guc-track-io-timing"/> is enabled,
+ otherwise zero)
</para></entry>
</row>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml
index 7ddb5a05c65..1c19e254dc2 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml
@@ -171,8 +171,9 @@ ROLLBACK;
<para>
Include information on buffer usage. Specifically, include the number of
shared blocks hit, read, dirtied, and written, the number of local blocks
- hit, read, dirtied, and written, and the number of temp blocks read and
- written.
+ hit, read, dirtied, and written, the number of temp blocks read and
+ written, and the time spent reading and writing data file blocks
+ (in milliseconds) if <xref linkend="guc-track-io-timing"/> is enabled.
A <emphasis>hit</emphasis> means that a read was avoided because the block was
found already in cache when needed.
Shared blocks contain data from regular tables and indexes;