pgCluu Files

2015-07-25 - Version 2.4 released

This release is a maintenance release that fix some issues. There's also some
new interesting reports:

  * Transfers per second (read/write/both) on all devices from sar -b
  * Transfers per second for each device from sar -d .
  * Number of tasks created per second
  * Number of context switches per seconds.
  * Improve pg_stat_statement report by adding all shared block stats
    and read/write I/O timing per query when track_io_timing is enabled.
  * Add device with highest tps on overall system information.

and useful features:

  * Add --capture mode to pgcluu_collectd to be be able to build a snapshot of
    the PostgreSQL instance and exit. pgCluu will automatically adapt the report
    to this capture mode. It will use a temporary directory /tmp/pgcluu_capture
    to generate a tarball /tmp/pgcluu_capture.tar.gz containing the capture.
  * Add pgCluu logo and ico to the html output.
  * Add --charset option to be able to change the html charset, default: utf8.
  * Allow regular expression in database list available in reports, for example:
    with --db-only "p.*", only database beginning with p will be reported.
  * Allow pgcluu to parse and compute statistics from gzip compressed files.
  * pgcluu will not stop anymore if the sar file is not found, it will only
    show a warning message and continue.

This release also adds -r | --rotate-daily and -R | --rotate-hourly options to
pgcluu_collectd be able to rotate statistic files on a daily or hourly basis.
You can use -z or --compress option to compress rotated data files. Thanks to
Euler Taveira de Oliveira for the feature request.

There also some code relative to next coming major release that will be used
to allow a full incremental mode and a temporal navigation into the collected
statistics from a CGI program. This code enable caching (option -C or --cache)
by dumping statistics stored in memory into binary files. With those files, data
files can be removed (automatically with option -c or --clean) and report can
be build later from them. This is not really useful now but this s the first
stage to build incremental and cumulative reports.

Here are the complete list of bug fixes in this release:

  - Fix pretty print number format when units are blocks and not sizes.
  - Do not apply database list restriction on total cluster size calculation.
  - Fix Statistics about I/O on Indexes.
  - Rewrite some parts of the overall system statistics for better performances.
  - Fix bug in overall stat for Most read/written device, they was multiplied
    by 512 (size of a block) twice.
  - Fix system report of r/w and tps per devices.
  - Fix wrong report of pg_buffercache statistics.
  - Remove some global variables with local redeclaration.
  - Fix use of uninitialized value during build of pg_stat_statement report.
  - Fix Statements statistics not available because a local var is used during
    computation. Thanks to Michel Meyer for the patch.
  - Fix uninitialized value and wrong overall reports in Home menu. Thanks to
    Assem Bayahi for the report.
  - Remove garbage from last commit.
  - Fix replication lag statistics report and add new report about
    "Number of xlog data written per second."
  - Fix documentation about --included-db
  - Fix pgcluu_collectd crash when --no-database is used and the psql command
    is not available. Thanks to Ronan Dunklau for the report.
  - Fix call to cluster canceled queries statistics.
  - Fix menu when no database are found.
  - Fix start/end date and path to sar file in incremental and capture mode.
  - Separate load of statistics from report builder.
  - Make paths internally relative into output directory especially for
    incremental facilities.
  - Fix several issue that prevented configuration files to be copied into the
    output directory.
  - Allow white space in db's names. Thanks to Nicolas Thauvin for the report.
  - Fix wrongly disabled temporary files menu.
  - Fix database list with character - inside the name
  - Fix replication and checkpoint report and corresponding menus disabled.
    Thanks to Zsolt for the report.
  - Fix a print on undefined value when a device is mounted after the first
    execution of pgcluu. Thanks to Ezequiel Mina for the report.
  - Add timezone option for perl localtime() and fix mixed formated tabs. Thanks
    to David Cramblett for the patch.
  - Add missing information into usage about -w | --password option.
  - Fix for sar command when ssh not in use. Thanks to David Cramblett for the
    patch.
  - Make error message during first connection more explicit. Thanks to Gregoire
    Pineau for the report.
  - Be sure that interval is always != 0 to avoid illegal division by zero.
    Thanks to Gregoire Pineau for the report.
  - Fix control character in substitution regex.
  - Fix error message for $OUTPUT_DIR not being empty should not use $INPUT_DIR.
    Thanks to Matthew Musgrove for the patch.
  - Fix limit reports to the database when --only-db is used. Thanks to Bianca
    Santana Espichicoquez for the report.