Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>
>> "Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>>> if (stats_hook)
>>> (* stats_hook)(pgStatTabList);
>>> Any objections to sliding this in?
>> Only that it's useless. What are you going to do in such a hook?
>
> Simon left for camping before you sent this. My understanding is he wants to
> gather the data elsewhere. So either he'll just elog when it and grovel the
> logs or send it via some other method. Alternatively he could aggregate the
> data himself and save it in a file kind of gprof-style.
>
Yes, it's not intended to insert more stats, but to get the raw data out
for external analysis during development and testing of applications and
systems etc.
Regards, Dave.