Re: Megabytes of stats saved after every connection

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:08:28AM -0400, Jeff Trout wrote:
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> On Jul 28, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Jan Wieck wrote:
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> >Then again, the stats file is only written. There is nothing that
> >actually forces the blocks out. On a busy system, one individual
> >stats file will be created, written to,
>
> If one is running with stats_reset_on_server_start true (the default)
> do we even need this file if it is never read?
>
> To help alleviate his problem could he symlink it to /dev/null?

If you don't want the stat collector to run, you can disable it. No
need to play games with a useless pgstat file.

Anyway -- I see this as an argument in favor of the ability to
deactivate stats on a per-database basis.

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