Re: Resetting a single statistics counter

2010/1/24 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com> writes:
>> Magnus Hagander escreveu:
>>> Off to make it two separate functions.. (seems much more user-friendly
>>> than a single function with an extra argument, IMHO)
>
>> +1. But as Simon said _single_ is too ugly. What about
>> pg_stat_reset_user_{function,relation}?
>
> That implies that the operations wouldn't work against system tables;
> which they do.  I think a bigger problem is that "reset_single_table"
> seems like it might be talking about something like a TRUNCATE, ie,
> it's not clear that it means to reset counters rather than data.
> The pg_stat_ prefix is some help but not enough IMO.  So I suggest
> pg_stat_reset_table_counters and pg_stat_reset_function_counters.

Doesn't the pg_stat_ part already say this?

> (BTW, a similar complaint could be made about the previously committed
> patch: reset shared what?)

Well, it could also be made about the original pg_stat_reset()
function - reset what?

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