Re: Patch set under development to add usage reporting.

Tom Lane writes:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:

> > 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.
>
> I presume we need not worry about that, since the SQL committee are
> certainly not going to standardize something that's only there for
> DBs that don't support information_schema.
>
> Actually, the idea of standardizing anything at all in this area seems
> pretty bogus. The events that are interesting to measure are below the
> semantic level of the standard --- for instance, how are you going to
> count index searches, when the standard doesn't even recognize the
> existence of indexes? Let alone things like buffer cache hits, which is
> a concept that might not exist at all in some implementations. I think
> we can safely assume that the proposed standardization effort will go
> nowhere, and just look at whether this is interesting for Postgres.
>

Thanks for the feedback. I do agree, and sorry for any
confusion, the SHOW syntax was not meant for standardization at the
SQL level. We will keep your other remarks in mind as we proceed.

Best regards!

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John
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