Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>> Nice. Another interesting numbers would be device utilization, average
>> I/O speed and required space (which should be ~2x the pgstat.stat size
>> without the patch).
> this point is important - with large warehouse with lot of databases
> and tables you have move stat file to some ramdisc - without it you
> lost lot of IO capacity - and it is very important if you need only
> half sized ramdisc
[ blink... ] I confess I'd not been paying close attention to this
thread, but if that's true I'd say the patch is DOA. Why should we
accept 2x bloat in the already-far-too-large stats file? I thought
the idea was just to split up the existing data into multiple files.
regards, tom lane
