Re: Adding locks statistics

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 08:54:07AM -0400, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM Bertrand Drouvot <
> bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Docs: seem good. Needs a section on how to reset via
> > > SELECT pg_stat_reset_shared('lock');
> >
> 
> I meant something closer to the actual description of the view.  Having it
> buried in the pg_stat_reset_shared section is not intuitive for people
> looking up the view in the docs.

I agree that we could add this extra information in the view documentation.

But none of pg_stat_archiver, pg_stat_bgwriter, pg_stat_checkpointer, pg_stat_io,
pg_stat_slru and pg_stat_wal have done so. The only exception is pg_stat_recovery_prefetch
and for a good reason as not all of its fields are reset. 

While I think that's probably a good idea, I think it's worth a dedicated
thread (so that the discussion takes into account the other views mentioned
above).

Regards,

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Bertrand Drouvot
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