Re: New pg_dump patch, --no-stats flag, disables sending to statistics collector - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: New pg_dump patch, --no-stats flag, disables sending to statistics collector
Date
Msg-id 200901202154.n0KLsmL11525@momjian.us
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In response to Re: New pg_dump patch, --no-stats flag, disables sending to statistics collector  ("Jaime Casanova" <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>)
Responses Re: New pg_dump patch, --no-stats flag, disables sending to statistics collector  (Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2@obviously.com>)
Re: New pg_dump patch, --no-stats flag, disables sending to statistics collector  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Jaime Casanova wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2@obviously.com> wrote:
> > This patch adds another flag to pg_dump, this time to disable statistics
> > collection.  This is useful if your don't want pg_dump activity to show (or
> > clutter) your normal statistics.  This may be appropriate for an
> > organization that regularly dumps a database for backup purposes, but wants
> > to analyze only the application's database use.
> >
> 
> i haven't looked at the patch nor it's functional use... but from the
> top of my head jumps a question: is there a reason to not make this
> the default behaviour?

If this is a generally desired feature (and I question that), I think we
need a more general solution.

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