>Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes: >> On 2016-08-22 13:54:43 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>>> I'm inclined to suggest you forget this approach and propose a single >>>> counter for "SQL commands executed", which avoids all of the above >>>> definitional problems. People who need more detail than that are >>>> probably best advised to look to contrib/pg_stat_statements, anyway.
>>> I disagree. I think SQL commands executed, lumping absolutely >>> everything together, really isn't much use.
>> I'm inclined to agree. I think that's a quite useful stat when looking >> at an installation one previously didn't have a lot of interaction with.
>Well, let's at least have an "other" category so you can add up the >counters and get a meaningful total.
How would that meaningful total might help a user. What can a user might analyse with the counter in 'other' category.
