On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes: >> No, what I was suggesting was taking the existing function: >> extern void pgstat_report_waiting(bool waiting); >> ...and instead doing something like this: >> extern void pgstat_report_waiting(char *reason); >> ...and then arrange to pass the reason via the eponymous argument. > > The question is how many cycles are we willing to expend on preparing a > reason string that (in approximately 99.9% of the calls) will not be > of any use. It would be much better to avoid doing this and instead > expend the extra work on the inspection side.
I'd much rather have the information be pulled than pushed, if there's a way to make that work. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
