Re: reason for default PGSTAT_ACTIVITY_SIZE

Le 05/01/2010 20:36, Frank Joerdens a écrit :
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> [...]
>>> Is there a good reason to set PGSTAT_ACTIVITY_SIZE at 256 and is my
>>> only option to recompile the server? Is there a practical
>>> limit/drawback to making the variable say 4 or 8 times the default?
> [...]
>> On current releases, it has a higher value (1024 IIRC). And it's a
>> configuration parameter on 8.4.
>
> A cool that's great news! We'll probably deal with this issue then by
> going from 8.3->8.4 asap.
>
> But I just grepped the 8.3 source tree for PGSTAT_ACTIVITY_SIZE and
> it's not there? So the value/variable has a different name now?
>

PGBE_ACTIVITY_SIZE since 8.2.

In 8.4, the GUC is named track_activity_query_size.

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