Yes, seems that is best. I will probably hack something up here so I
can do some testing of the app itself.
> Mike Mascari's idea (er... his assembling of the other ideas) still
> sounds like the Best Solution though.
>
> :-)
>
> + Justin
>
> +++
>
> I like the idea of updating shared memory with the performance
> statistics,
> current query execution information, etc., providing a function to fetch
> those statistics, and perhaps providing a system view (i.e.
> pg_performance)
> based upon such functions which can be queried by the administrator.
>
> FWIW,
>
> Mike Mascari
> mascarm@mascari.com
>
> +++
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > > I think Bruce wants per-backend data, and this approach would seem to only
> > > get the data for the current backend.
> > >
> > > Also, I really don't like the proposal to write files to /tmp. If we want a
> > > perf tool, then we need to have something like 'top', which will
> > > continuously update. With 40 backends, the idea of writing 40 file to /tmp
> > > every second seems a little excessive to me.
> >
> > My idea was to use 'ps' to gather most of the information, and just use
> > the internal stats when someone clicked on a backend and wanted more
> > information.
> >
> > --
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