Re: Resetting a single statistics counter

2010/1/24 Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>:
> Tom Lane escreveu:
>> That implies that the operations wouldn't work against system tables;
>> which they do.  I think a bigger problem is that "reset_single_table"
>> seems like it might be talking about something like a TRUNCATE, ie,
>> it's not clear that it means to reset counters rather than data.
>> The pg_stat_ prefix is some help but not enough IMO.  So I suggest
>> pg_stat_reset_table_counters and pg_stat_reset_function_counters.
>>
> Sure, much better. +1.
>
>> (BTW, a similar complaint could be made about the previously committed
>> patch: reset shared what?)
>>
> BTW, what about that idea to overload pg_stat_reset()? The
> pg_stat_reset_shared should be renamed to pg_stat_reset('foo') [1] where foo
> is the class of objects that it is resetting. pg_stat_reset is not a so
> suggestive name but that's one we already have; besides, it will be intuitive
> for users.

I think it's easier to use the way it is now. But yes, we could
overload it to make it:
pg_stat_reset() : everything, like now
pg_stat_reset('bgwriter') : what pg_stat_reset_shared() does
now. Can take more params.
pg_stat_reset('table', 'foo'::regclass); : what
pg_stat_reset_single_table_counters does now

The advantage would be fewer functions, but I still think it's easier
to use the way we have it now.

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