Re: Server instrumentation for 8.1

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Server instrumentation for 8.1
Date: 2005-05-11 20:51:40
Message-ID: 20050511205140.GV31103@decibel.org
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On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:44:21PM +0000, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> There's still a lengthy discussion going on whether it's a good idea to
> add a forth way to read pgsql's schema (pg_* tables, pg_* views,
> information_schema, did I miss one?), but I'd like to see helper
> functions for issues *not* covered in the core package.
>
> - dbsize has been in contrib for a long time, though it appears to me as
> quite a basic functionality to find out about storage needs.

FWIW, I believe the new system views cover all the dbsize cases.
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