On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 04:29 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > > > > Any reason not to just fold them both into stats_start_collector ? > > > > > > Well, then you couldn't turn collection on and off without restarting > > > the postmaster, which might be a pain. > > > > Maybe we don't actually need stats_start_collector, but instead we start > > it always and just have one knob to turn collection on and off. I'm > > not sure whether the extra process would bother people if they're not > > collecting, but we have so many extra processes now, why would anyone > > care. > > I agree. Let's remove stats_start_collector and merge the other two > into a single setting. Anything more than that is overkill. > > Having a single idle process is not a problem to anyone. It just sleeps > all the time. We are all used to having six useless getty processes and > nobody cares.
Yes, thats a great plan. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
