Re: Using ProcSignal to get memory context stats from a running backend - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2017-12-19 13:17:52 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah.  But please don't mess with MemoryContextStats per se ---
>> I dunno about you guys but "call MemoryContextStats(TopMemoryContext)"
>> is kinda wired into my gdb reflexes.  I think what'd make sense
>> is a new function "MemoryContextStatsTo(context, function_pointer)".
>> It's okay to redefine the APIs of the per-context-type functions
>> these would call, though, because nobody calls those functions directly.

> We already have MemoryContextStatsDetail() - it seems to make sense to
> expand that API and leave MemoryContextStats() alone. I don't think
> there's a need for a third variant?

Sure, WFM.

            regards, tom lane