Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2016-08-22 13:54:43 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> I'm inclined to suggest you forget this approach and propose a single
>>> counter for "SQL commands executed", which avoids all of the above
>>> definitional problems. People who need more detail than that are
>>> probably best advised to look to contrib/pg_stat_statements, anyway.
>> I disagree. I think SQL commands executed, lumping absolutely
>> everything together, really isn't much use.
> I'm inclined to agree. I think that's a quite useful stat when looking
> at an installation one previously didn't have a lot of interaction with.
Well, let's at least have an "other" category so you can add up the
counters and get a meaningful total.
regards, tom lane