Re: pg_stat_statements cluttered with "DEALLOCATE dbdpg_p*"

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_stat_statements cluttered with "DEALLOCATE dbdpg_p*"
Date: 2014-07-20 17:56:02
Message-ID: 10346.1405878962@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2014-07-20 17:01:50 +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>> If you do not like my normalization hack (I do not like it much either:-), I
>> have suggested to add "&& !IsA(parsetree, DeallocateStmt)" to the condition
>> above, which would ignore DEALLOCATE as PREPARE and EXECUTE are currently
>> and rightfully ignored.

> Well, EXECUTE isn't actually ignored, but tracked via the execution
> time. But that doesn't diminish your point with PREPARE. If we do
> something we should go for the && !IsA(parsetree, DeallocateStmt), not
> the normalization. The latter is pretty darn bogus.

Agreed. I think basically the reasoning here is "since we don't track
PREPARE or EXECUTE, we shouldn't track DEALLOCATE either".

However, this is certainly a behavioral change. Perhaps squeeze it
into 9.4, but not the back braches?

regards, tom lane

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