Re: Clearing global statistics

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Clearing global statistics
Date: 2009-12-09 17:55:05
Message-ID: 1260381305.12582.0.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On sön, 2009-12-06 at 19:50 -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
> The fact that you're asking the question this way suggests to me I've
> named this completely wrong. pg_stat_reset_global only resets the
> bits
> global to all databases. It doesn't touch any of the
> database-specific
> things that pg_stat_reset can handle right now. At the moment, the
> only
> global information is what's in pg_stat_bgwriter: buffer statistics
> and
> checkpoint stats. I'm thinking that I should rename this new
> function
> to pg_stat_reset_bgwriter so it's obvious how limited its target is.
> Using either "global" or "cluster" for the name is just going to
> leave
> people thinking it acts across a much larger area than it does.

The term "shared" is used elsewhere to describe the, well, shared
catalogs.

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