On lör, 2009-10-31 at 13:37 -0400, John Murtari wrote: > I had taken a look at existing statistics reporting (at > least in the 7.4.x tree) and didn't see a good analog to what this > provides.
The statistics collector detailed at <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/monitoring-stats.html> appears to do pretty much the same, although on a slightly lower level. But that's the logical place where to add that in PostgreSQL. > We had proposed this as a comment on an earlier version of > the standard. From discussion with some senior committee members, > it would appear the best fit for this type of capability might > be in the INFORMATION SCHEMA part of the standard. We also had > developed the "SHOW STATISTICS" syntax for DB version that don't > support INFORMATION SCHEMA. I don't really get the point of the SHOW STATISTICS command. There is already a command whose purpose is to retrieve data in tabular form, namely SELECT. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers