On 9/1/19 8:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> - The overhead for most use cases is low compared to the benefit.
> Please do not expect that we're going to accept such assertions
> unsupported by evidence. (As a very quick-n-dirty test, I tried
> "pgbench -S" and got somewhere around 4% TPS degradation with
> pg_stat_statements loaded. That doesn't seem negligible.)
AFAIR Andres pointed overhead could be much more when you have more queries than
pg_stat_statements.max [1]. Eviction can be costly.
1: https://twitter.com/AndresFreundTec/status/1105585237772263424
