On Friday, May 25, 2012, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com <javascript:;>> writes: > > On Friday, May 25, 2012 04:03:49 PM Peter Geoghegan wrote: > >> Where do you suggest the file be written to? > > > One could argue stats_temp_directory would be the correct place. > > No, that would be exactly the *wrong* place, because that directory can > be on a RAM disk. We need to put this somewhere where it'll survive > a shutdown. > > One could imagine creating a PGDATA subdirectory just for permanent (not > temp) stats files, but right at the moment that seems like overkill. > If we accumulate a few more similar files, I'd start to think it was > worth doing. >
That's pretty much what I was thinking. But yeah, at the time it's probably overkill - the main use today would be for better isolation of non-core extensions, but I'm not sure there are enough of those that want to write files in the data directory to care about.. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
