Re: Higher level questions around shared memory stats

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Higher level questions around shared memory stats
Date: 2022-03-30 19:44:20
Message-ID: 999860e3-d21c-330e-eef3-215bfa5509ac@enterprisedb.com
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On 29.03.22 23:01, Andres Freund wrote:
>> I think what's actually most important here is the error reporting. We need
>> to make it clear, at least via log messages, that something bad has
>> happened.
> The message currently (on HEAD, but similarly on the path) is:
> ereport(pgStatRunningInCollector ? LOG : WARNING,
> (errmsg("corrupted statistics file \"%s\"",
> statfile)));

Corrupted how? How does it know? Is there a checksum, was the file the
wrong length, what happened? I think this could use more detail.

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