Re: auto_explain WAS: RFC: Timing Events

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: auto_explain WAS: RFC: Timing Events
Date: 2012-11-22 13:03:27
Message-ID: 20121122130327.GB4316@alvh.no-ip.org
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Greg Smith escribió:

> If I could just turn off logging just during those
> periods--basically, throwing them away only when some output rate
> throttled component hit its limit--I could still find them in the
> data collected the rest of the time. There are some types of
> problems that also only occur under peak load that this idea would
> miss, but you'd still be likely to get *some* of them,
> statistically.

Uhm, what if you had a simple script that changed postgresql.conf and
SIGHUP'ed postmaster? You could have it turn logging on and off
depending on predefined system load watermarks.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

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