Re: Generic Monitoring Framework Proposal - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Generic Monitoring Framework Proposal
Date
Msg-id 27941.1150814053@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Generic Monitoring Framework Proposal  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: Generic Monitoring Framework Proposal  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> What would be useful is instrumenting high level calls that can't be traced
> without application guidance. For example, inserting a dtrace probe for each
> SQL and each plan node. That way someone could get the same info as EXPLAIN
> ANALYZE from a production server without having to make application
> modifications (or suffer the gettimeofday overhead).

My bogometer just went off again.  How is something like dtrace going to
magically get realtime information without reading the clock?
        regards, tom lane


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