On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:27:16PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > On 20 October 2012 07:43, Abhijit Menon-Sen <a...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > At 2012-10-15 10:28:17 -0400, robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: > >> > >> > Is there any concise description that applies? […] > >> > >> I don't think there is. I think we need to replace those counters > >> with something better. The status quo is quite bizarre. > > > > Fair enough. Do you have any ideas? > > > > I see two possibilities: first, they could become the tuple analogue of > > blks_read and blks_hit, i.e. tuples fetched from disk, and tuples found > > in memory. (I don't know if there's a simple way to count that, and I'm > > not sure it would be very useful; we have blks_{read,hit} after all.) > > > > Second, it could do what I thought it did, which is count tuples fetched > > by sequential and index scans respectively. I'm not sure how useful the > > values would be, but at least it's information you can't get elsewhere. > > We already have the second one on pg_stat_all_tables. > > A third possibility exists, which is the one Tom described above. > > Collecting information at pg_stat_database level isn't interesting > anyway (to me) for information that can be collected at table level.
Added to TODO: Restructure pg_stat_database columns tup_returned and tup_fetched to return meaningful values -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers