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-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_wal.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_wal.c b/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_wal.c
index 5a878bd1155..305a925c47a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_wal.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_wal.c
@@ -38,11 +38,22 @@ static WalUsage prevWalUsage;
*
* Must be called by processes that generate WAL, that do not call
* pgstat_report_stat(), like walwriter.
+ *
+ * "force" set to true ensures that the statistics are flushed; note that
+ * this needs to acquire the pgstat shmem LWLock, waiting on it. When
+ * set to false, the statistics may not be flushed if the lock could not
+ * be acquired.
*/
void
pgstat_report_wal(bool force)
{
- pgstat_flush_wal(force);
+ bool nowait;
+
+ /* like in pgstat.c, don't wait for lock acquisition when !force */
+ nowait = !force;
+
+ /* flush wal stats */
+ pgstat_flush_wal(nowait);
}
/*