Re: RFC: Timing Events

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Satoshi Nagayasu <snaga(at)uptime(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RFC: Timing Events
Date: 2012-11-05 20:44:54
Message-ID: 24346.1352148294@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>> Do we have something to add to auto_explain?

> Well, to be frank, I've never found auto-explain to be useful because of
> its restriction to superuser sessions. It's an interesting
> proof-of-concept, but completely useless at any production site.

Huh? The typical use-case is to enable it for all sessions by
including it in shared_preload_libraries. That doesn't require any
particular session to be superuser. (If you're superuser you can then
turn it *off* in your session, should you wish.)

regards, tom lane

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