On 11st of February 2023, Andres Freund committed patch:
Add pg_stat_io view, providing more detailed IO statistics Builds on 28e626bde00 and f30d62c2fc6. See the former for motivation. Rows of the view show IO operations for a particular backend type, IO target object, IO context combination (e.g. a client backend's operations on permanent relations in shared buffers) and each column in the view is the total number of IO Operations done (e.g. writes). So a cell in the view would be, for example, the number of blocks of relation data written from shared buffers by client backends since the last stats reset. In anticipation of tracking WAL IO and non-block-oriented IO (such as temporary file IO), the "op_bytes" column specifies the unit of the "reads", "writes", and "extends" columns for a given row. Rows for combinations of IO operation, backend type, target object and context that never occur, are ommitted entirely. For example, checkpointer will never operate on temporary relations. Similarly, if an IO operation never occurs for such a combination, the IO operation's cell will be null, to distinguish from 0 observed IO operations. For example, bgwriter should not perform reads. Note that some of the cells in the view are redundant with fields in pg_stat_bgwriter (e.g. buffers_backend). For now, these have been kept for backwards compatibility. Bumps catversion. Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> Author: Samay Sharma <smilingsamay@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakrejda@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200124195226.lth52iydq2n2uilq@alap3.anarazel.de