Re: BUG #1707: statistics collector starts with stats_start_collector

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Federico Di Gregorio <fog(at)initd(dot)org>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #1707: statistics collector starts with stats_start_collector
Date: 2005-06-13 02:30:43
Message-ID: 200506130230.j5D2Uh604789@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > If that is the logic, why do we have stats_start_collector at all?
>
> Ask Jan ;-)
>
> I can see some advantage to it as a way of finding out whether the
> collector was started or not ... but if that's the intent, we
> should make it non user-writable.

I can see someone turning it off but leaving other options on because
they will want to turn them on later. I think our current behavior is
broken.

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