Re: [HACKERS] monitoring-stats.html documentation

2009-04-09 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Done with attached patch;  good idea. Bruce, You are a documentation-tuning machine... thanks. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.o

Re: [HACKERS] monitoring-stats.html documentation

2009-04-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > > Robert Haas writes: > >> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/monitoring-stats.html > >> says: "Note: blocks_fetched minus blocks_hit gives the number of > >> kernel read() calls issued for the table, index, or da

Re: [HACKERS] monitoring-stats.html documentation

2009-04-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas writes: > > http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/monitoring-stats.html > > says: "Note: blocks_fetched minus blocks_hit gives the number of > > kernel read() calls issued for the table, index, or database; but the > > actual number of physical reads is usua

Re: [HACKERS] monitoring-stats.html documentation

2009-04-04 Thread Robert Haas
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas writes: >> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/monitoring-stats.html >> says: "Note: blocks_fetched minus blocks_hit gives the number of >> kernel read() calls issued for the table, index, or database; but the >> actual num

Re: [HACKERS] monitoring-stats.html documentation

2009-04-04 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/monitoring-stats.html > says: "Note: blocks_fetched minus blocks_hit gives the number of > kernel read() calls issued for the table, index, or database; but the > actual number of physical reads is usually lower due to kernel-le

[HACKERS] monitoring-stats.html documentation

2009-04-04 Thread Robert Haas
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/monitoring-stats.html says: "Note: blocks_fetched minus blocks_hit gives the number of kernel read() calls issued for the table, index, or database; but the actual number of physical reads is usually lower due to kernel-level buffering." This seems t