RE: Performance monitor

I like the idea of updating shared memory with the performance statistics,
current query execution information, etc., providing a function to fetch
those statistics, and perhaps providing a system view (i.e. pg_performance)
based upon such functions which can be queried by the administrator.

FWIW,

Mike Mascari
mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Warner [SMTP:pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 7:42 PM
To: Justin Clift
Cc: Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; The Hermit Hacker; PostgreSQL-development
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Performance monitor

At 11:33 8/03/01 +1100, Justin Clift wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Wouldn't another approach be to write a C function that does the
>necessary work, then just call it like any other C function?
>
>i.e. Connect to the database and issue a "select
>perf_stats('/tmp/stats-2001-03-08-01.txt')" ?
>

I think Bruce wants per-backend data, and this approach would seem to only
get the data for the current backend.

Also, I really don't like the proposal to write files to /tmp. If we want a
perf tool, then we need to have something like 'top', which will
continuously update. With 40 backends, the idea of writing 40 file to /tmp
every second seems a little excessive to me.

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