Re: Should the docs have a warning about pg_stat_reset()? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 06:52, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
> OK, let me step back.  Why are people resetting the statistics
> regularly?  Based on that purpose, does it make sense to clear the
> stats that effect autovacuum?

I can't speak for everyone, but once upon a time when I first started
using PostgreSQL, to monitor the application's use of the database I
recorded the output of pg_stat_user_tables once per day and then reset
the statistics.  It was useful to know the number of inserted tuples,
seq scans, index scans etc so I could understand the load on the
database better.   Of course, nowadays with LEAD()/LAG() it's pretty
easy to find the difference from the previous day. I'd have done it
differently if those had existed back then.

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