Re: Configurable Additional Stats - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Configurable Additional Stats
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Msg-id 46854DC5.8030903@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: Configurable Additional Stats  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Configurable Additional Stats  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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.


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