Re: Using ProcSignal to get memory context stats from a running backend - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Using ProcSignal to get memory context stats from a running backend
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In response to Re: Using ProcSignal to get memory context stats from a runningbackend  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: Using ProcSignal to get memory context stats from a runningbackend  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> I agree that it's more reliable - I hope there's no meaningful safety
> difference.  I think you overestimate users a bit however - far from
> most of them are going to be able to extract a very long log entry from
> a busy log file. There's no generally available easy way to copy a few
> pages of text from a logfile that's a few gigabytes large...

Well, a lot of users will send us the whole logfile rather than just
the relevant bits, but that doesn't bother me.

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Robert Haas
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