On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> And, it doesn't seem like it's necessarily going to safe me a whole
> lot either, because if it turns out that my sync phases are long, the
> first question out of my mouth is going to be "what percentage of my
> total sync time is accounted for by the longest sync?". And so right
> there I'm back to the logs.
It seems clear that the purpose of this is to quickly and easily
decide whether there is a potential problem.
If you decide there is a potential problem, you may wish to look at
more detailed information.
So there is a huge time saving from avoiding the need to look at the
detail when its unnecessary and possibly not even enabled.
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