Re: pgstat: delayed write of stats file

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgstat: delayed write of stats file
Date: 2006-04-27 00:06:52
Message-ID: 200604270006.k3R06qw25565@candle.pha.pa.us
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Patch applied. Thanks.

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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Per some earlier discussion, here is an attempt at implementing a
> "delayed write" of the pgstats file, to decrease the write activity on
> that file.
>
> It changes so the file is only written once every 5 minutes (changeable
> of course, I just picked something) instead of once every half second.
> It's still written when the stats collector shuts down, just as before.
> And it is now also written on backend request. A backend requests a
> rewrite by simply sending a special stats message. It operates on the
> assumption that the backends aren't actually going to read the
> statistics file very often, compared to how frequent it's written today.
>
>
> //Magnus

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