On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 12:51 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Personally I would favor > > track_activities > track_counts
I would personally prefer the verb "monitor" rather than track. The chapter in the docs is already called "Monitoring Database Activity". Sysadmins know their job is about monitoring; I never heard anyone say "how do we track the database?", nor are there other products that refer to themselves as "tracking tools". There has always been a confusion between different kinds of stats, so a name change is good. "_counts" sounds like it might have something to do with Select Count(*) and I can see everybody getting confused between counts and activities. Can we have these two, please? monitor_activity = on | off monitor_command_strings = on | off [Activities is correct English, though not common usage, as is shown by the chapter heading in the docs. Most computer people know that an Activity Monitor will monitor more than one thing at a time and that if "there has been some activity" then that might mean one or more events have occurred. It's also easier for non-English speakers if we avoid the plural.] > reset_counts_on_server_start Yes, this can go. -- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
