Monday, August 25, 2008

Re: [HACKERS] temporary statistics option at initdb time

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think this is introducing complication and race conditions to solve a
>> problem that no one will really care about. Just let people change the
>> filename at SIGHUP and document that doing that on-the-fly may cause
>> stats queries to fail for a short interval.

> Ok, I'll do it that way.

BTW, it might be worth tweaking the stats collector to dump stats
immediately after responding to SIGHUP, just to narrow this window
as much as possible.

[ squint... ] Actually, it looks like the stats collector SIG_IGNores
SIGHUP? That can't be right (any more) can it?

regards, tom lane

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