On sön, 2009-12-06 at 19:50 -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
> The fact that you're asking the question this way suggests to me I've
> named this completely wrong. pg_stat_reset_global only resets the
> bits
> global to all databases. It doesn't touch any of the
> database-specific
> things that pg_stat_reset can handle right now. At the moment, the
> only
> global information is what's in pg_stat_bgwriter: buffer statistics
> and
> checkpoint stats. I'm thinking that I should rename this new
> function
> to pg_stat_reset_bgwriter so it's obvious how limited its target is.
> Using either "global" or "cluster" for the name is just going to
> leave
> people thinking it acts across a much larger area than it does.
The term "shared" is used elsewhere to describe the, well, shared
catalogs.
