Re: Patch set under development to add usage reporting.

Peter
> > I had taken a look at existing statistics reporting (at
> > least in the 7.4.x tree) and didn't see a good analog to what this
> > provides.
>
> The statistics collector detailed at
> <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/monitoring-stats.html>
> appears to do pretty much the same, although on a slightly lower level.
> But that's the logical place where to add that in PostgreSQL.
>
> > We had proposed this as a comment on an earlier version of
> > the standard. From discussion with some senior committee members,
> > it would appear the best fit for this type of capability might
> > be in the INFORMATION SCHEMA part of the standard. We also had
> > developed the "SHOW STATISTICS" syntax for DB version that don't
> > support INFORMATION SCHEMA.
>
> I don't really get the point of the SHOW STATISTICS command. There is
> already a command whose purpose is to retrieve data in tabular form,
> namely SELECT.

Okay, thank you. We will take another look at those items.
Best regards!

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