Bruce Momjian wrote:
Jaime Casanova wrote:
i haven't looked at the patch nor it's functional use... but from the
top of my head jumps a question: is there a reason to not make this
the default behaviour?
If this is a generally desired feature (and I question that), I think we
need a more general solution.
I'm not a big fan of flags, preferring good defaults. But I was not bold enough to suggest this as a new default, as someone would probably want the opposite flag. If you're measuring total server load (rather than analyzing an application), you may want to see pg_dump activity.

As for a "general" solution: one could add the ability to inject arbitrary sql just prior to a dump run. That would let someone roll their own by injecting "SET stats_block_level = false", or make any other arbitrary settings changes.

Or one might slice the statistics collector by role or user (so your 'backup' role would keep a separate tally).

On the other hand, the flag's advantage is simplicity and directness.

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