| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Federico Di Gregorio <fog(at)initd(dot)org>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #1707: statistics collector starts with stats_start_collector = false |
| Date: | 2005-06-13 04:39:14 |
| Message-ID: | 11312.1118637554@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I don't have a problem with removing it as a writable option ... but
>> I'm thinking we should leave it as a read-only GUC parameter (like
>> the several others we have already). Otherwise we'll need to add some
>> other method of finding out whether the collector is running.
> Why would a user care?
luser> It's not collecting statistics!
us> Is the collector running?
luser> How should I know?
us> er ...
If we don't have a way to check this, we'll regret it soon enough...
now maybe a GUC setting isn't the optimal way, but I think we need
*some* way besides ps. ps doesn't work remotely and I think there's
no simple equivalent under Windows either.
regards, tom lane
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