On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 10:15 +0100, Dave Page wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > > 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. > > > It gets my vote.
Look to -patches for an implementation of the above. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
