Re: Location for pgstat.stat - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Location for pgstat.stat
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Msg-id 486A7E6D.7020509@hagander.net
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In response to Re: Location for pgstat.stat  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Location for pgstat.stat  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> But pending that we have that, how about we just move it into it's own
>> subdirectory?
>> This would make it possible to symlink or mount that directory off to a
>> ramdrive (for example).
> 
> Hmm ... that would almost certainly result in the stats being lost over
> a system shutdown.  How much do we care?

Only for those who put it on a ramdrive. The default, unless you
move/sync it off, would still be the same as it is today. While not
perfect, the performance difference of going to a ramdrive might easily
be enough to offset that in some cases, I think.

//Magnus



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