Re: Using ProcSignal to get memory context stats from a running backend

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Using ProcSignal to get memory context stats from a running backend
Date: 2017-12-12 19:16:59
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaFbdszf7oDx_3AMWPqef3On-qE_u-HJe-nk=e319SPAQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> I agree that it's more reliable - I hope there's no meaningful safety
> difference. I think you overestimate users a bit however - far from
> most of them are going to be able to extract a very long log entry from
> a busy log file. There's no generally available easy way to copy a few
> pages of text from a logfile that's a few gigabytes large...

Well, a lot of users will send us the whole logfile rather than just
the relevant bits, but that doesn't bother me.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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