Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I don't have a problem with removing it as a writable option ... but
>> I'm thinking we should leave it as a read-only GUC parameter (like
>> the several others we have already). Otherwise we'll need to add some
>> other method of finding out whether the collector is running.
> Why would a user care?
luser> It's not collecting statistics!
us> Is the collector running?
luser> How should I know?
us> er ...
If we don't have a way to check this, we'll regret it soon enough...
now maybe a GUC setting isn't the optimal way, but I think we need
*some* way besides ps. ps doesn't work remotely and I think there's
no simple equivalent under Windows either.
regards, tom lane
