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Tom Lane wrote:
| Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com> writes:
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|>>I think we should just call gettimeofday() at postmaster start and store
|>>it somewhere.
|
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|>Isn't the shared memory a good place ?
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| Depends. Do you want to reset it during a backend-crash-recovery cycle?
| You'll have to, if it's only stored in shared memory. Depending on what
| your definition of "uptime" is, that could be a reasonable thing to do,
| or not.
|
| There's been a remarkable lack of discussion about exactly what this
| number would mean, anyway. Does "postmaster start" mean postmaster
| process start? Or when we are first ready to receive a connection?
| There could be a *very* large difference, in the case of a hot-standby
| postmaster.
Speaking of my needs I wish to have the time when the server was able to
accept connections and if the backend do a crash-recovery cicle we can have
a GUC, similar to statistics reset, in order to have an uptime reset
or not.
Regards
Gaetano Mendola
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