On Wed, 3 June 1998, at 18:40:10, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> > > select * from procs;
<stuff deleted>
> > 
> > "procs" is a pseudo-table that is generated on the fly from the process
> > data structures in the shared memory when queried. There are also
> > pseudo-tables for locks and traces and other information. 

That's exactly what I envision.  PRobably not what I articulated.

> > The advantage of using SQL is that the data can be selected into other
> > tables, grouped, projected, joined or whatever. The other advantage is
> > that all the exiting clients can take advantage of the data. So if you
> > wanted to write a graphical status monitor, you could do so quite simply
> > in pgtcl. 

Exactly.

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