Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > > Any reason not to just fold them both into stats_start_collector ? > > > > Well, then you couldn't turn collection on and off without restarting > > the postmaster, which might be a pain. > > Maybe we don't actually need stats_start_collector, but instead we start > it always and just have one knob to turn collection on and off. I'm > not sure whether the extra process would bother people if they're not > collecting, but we have so many extra processes now, why would anyone > care.
I agree. Let's remove stats_start_collector and merge the other two into a single setting. Anything more than that is overkill. Having a single idle process is not a problem to anyone. It just sleeps all the time. We are all used to having six useless getty processes and nobody cares. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
