On 6/8/15 3:26 PM, Joel Jacobson wrote:
> So I've heard from Magnus Hagander today IRL at our Stockholm PostgreSQL
> User Group meeting where we discussed this idea. He told me the overhead
> in the statistics collector is mainly when reading from it, not that
> much when writing to it.
I've heard enough stories of people moving the stats files to faster
storage that I'm not sure how true that really is...
> Magnus idea was to first optimize the collector to make it less of a
> problem to collect more data. Sounds like a good thing to do, but maybe
> more data in it wouldn't be a problem as long as you don't read too
> often from it?
The stats collector is a known problem under certain circumstances, so
improving it would probably be a good thing. The first thing that comes
to mind is splitting it into more files.
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