Re: Plans for 8.2?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:36:39AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Mikael Carneholm wrote:
> >>In terms of statistics we do have statistics and exhaustive logging that
> >>can provide you with all of that information. Is there something
> >>specific that
> >>the information already provided really doesn't give you?
> >
> >Can you give an example query for "list all queries executed since 12.00
> >AM, order by block_reads desc"? What I'm aiming for
> >is the ability to turn "measuring" on, regression test my application,
> >turn "measuring" off again, and list the most offensive queries executed
> >during the regression test. I know of at least one other DBMS that is
> >capable of this...won't mention which one :)
>
> You can use timestamp and one of the duration logging options for this.

But AFAIK that won't provide any information on IO used, or even blocks
read. Not to mention that parsing the logs is a PITA.

Plain and simple, it would be damn nice if query execution stats could
be easily logged to a table.
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