Re: doc: New cumulative stats subsystem obsoletes comment in maintenance.sgml

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 08:04:12PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2022-07-18 19:47:39 -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 4:31 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > > It might make sense to still say semi-accurate, but adjust the explanation
> > > to
> > > say that stats reporting is not instantaneous?
> > >
> > >
> > Unless that delay manifests in executing an UPDATE in a session then
> > looking at these views in the same session and not seeing that update
> > reflected I wouldn't mention it.
>
> Depending on which stats you're looking at, yes, that could totally happen. I
> don't think the issue is not seeing changes from the current transaction
> though - it's that *after* commit you might not see them for a while (the're
> transmitted not more than once a second, and can be delayed up to 60s if
> there's contention).

So the docs don't need any changes, I assume.

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