Re: Why isn't stats_temp_directory automatically created?

Fujii Masao wrote:
> Hi,

Hi!

Sorry about the very late response - I've been out of the country and
generally busy.

>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> This does not take into account the effect of symlinks as mentioned by
>> Itakagi Takahiro. I haven't looked at the details, but I don't think it
>> would be that much more work to deal with it - and as he mentions, this
>> is a very common usecase.
>
> Okey, I'll revise the patch; create also the directory which is
> referenced by symlink if not present.

Great.

>> Also, wouldn't it be better to isolate this to the first time when we
>> try to create the file - then we don't have to export the symbol?
>
> You mean having assign_pgstat_temp_directory() create the
> directory instead of pgstat_start()? In this case, the directory is
> created automatically not only at the beginning but also when
> a configuration file is reloaded. This seems to be better behavior.

No, I meant creating it when we open the file - in pgstat_write_statsfile().

//Magnus