Re: statistics buffer is full

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 19:29 -0800, Jeff Frost wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 18:46 -0800, Jeff Frost wrote:
> >> What does the message 'statistics buffer is full' mean? And if I saw lots of
> >> these in my logs what sort of bad things would happen? Presumably this is
> >> related to the planner statistics? Would I expect to have bad plans if this
> >> happens and how would I resolve it? This is what I found in the source, but
> >> I'm not really sure what's going on here:
> >
> > Usually it means that you have stats_command_string turned on :)
>
> hah! Does that mean it's just the buffering for pg_stat_activity and not for
> planner statistics? That doesn't make me feel too bad in this case.

Yeah it is nothing to worry about, however turning it off is certainly a
performance benefit.

Joshua D. Drake

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