Re: Displaying accumulated autovacuum cost - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Displaying accumulated autovacuum cost
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Msg-id 4731.1313675856@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Displaying accumulated autovacuum cost  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 03:23, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> On 08/17/2011 07:42 PM, Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote:
>>> I don't like exposing this information only on title processes.

>> I tend to build the simplest possible thing that is useful enough to work.

> By only putting it in the ps display, you exclude all the users who
> don't have an easy way to look at that information. The big group
> there is Windows, but it's not necessarily easy on all other platforms
> as well, afaik.

Yeah.  Also, process title updates are friggin expensive on some
platforms --- so much so, that we have a GUC setting to disable them.
So I don't think we should use that technique at all.  Put the info
into the stats collector instead (not "also").
        regards, tom lane


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