Re: [HACKERS] Performance monitor

[Richard J Kuhns]

Bruce Momjian writes:
...
 > The problem I see with the shared memory idea is that some of the
 > information needed may be quite large.  For example, query strings can
 > be very long.  Do we just allocate 512 bytes and clip off the rest.  And
 > as I add more info, I need more shared memory per backend.  I just liked
 > the file system dump solution because I could modify it pretty easily,
 > and because the info only appears when you click on the process, it
 > doesn't happen often.
 > 
Have you thought about using a named pipe?  They've been around for quite a
while, and should (he said with a :-)) be available on most-if-not-all
currently supported systems.
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