"MauMau" <maumau307(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I've found a bug in PostgreSQL 9.3 beta 2 which is related to statistics
> collection which emits excesssive amount of error messages. Please find
> attached the patch to fix this. I confirmed this problem occurs in
> PostgreSQL 9.2, too. Could you backport this?
It's not apparent that this is a good idea, let alone a bug fix.
> If the directory specified by stats_temp_directory becomes inaccessible to
> postgres, enormous amount of WARNING messages are output.
Well, yeah, because all of that functionality just broke. Not warning
about it doesn't seem like a good idea. AFAICT, your patch would result
in the situation not being remarked on anywhere except in the postmaster
log.
regards, tom lane