• Tom Lane's avatar
    Change the pgstat logic so that the stats collector writes the stats file only · 3c2313f4
    Tom Lane authored
    upon requests from backends, rather than on a fixed 500msec cycle.  (There's
    still throttling logic to ensure it writes no more often than once per
    500msec, though.)  This should result in a significant reduction in stats file
    write traffic in typical scenarios where the stats are demanded only
    infrequently.
    
    This approach also means that the former difficulty with changing
    stats_temp_directory on-the-fly has gone away, so remove the caution about
    that as well as the thrashing we did to minimize the trouble window.
    
    In passing, also fix pgstat_report_stat() so that we will send a stats
    message if we have function call stats but not table stats to report;
    this fixes a bug in the recent patch to support function-call stats.
    
    Martin Pihlak
    3c2313f4
pgstat.h 19.8 KB