Re: shared-memory based stats collector - v70

Hi,

On 8/10/22 11:25 PM, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 04:05, Drouvot, Bertrand  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 8/9/22 6:00 PM, Greg Stark wrote:
>>> On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 at 06:19, Drouvot, Bertrand  wrote:
>>>> What do you think about adding a function in core PG to provide such
>>>> functionality? (means being able to retrieve all the stats (+ eventually
>>>> add some filtering) without the need to connect to each database).
>>> I'm working on it myself too. I'll post a patch for discussion in a bit.
>> Great! Thank you!
> So I was adding the code to pgstat.c because I had thought there were
> some data types I needed and/or static functions I needed. However you
> and Andres encouraged me to check again now. And indeed I was able,
> after fixing a couple things, to make the code work entirely
> externally.

Nice!

Though I still think to have an SQL API in core could be useful to.

As Andres was not -1 about that idea (as it should be low cost to add 
and maintain) as long as somebody cares enough to write something: then 
I'll give it a try and submit a patch for it.

>
> This is definitely not polished and there's a couple obvious things
> missing. But at the risk of embarrassment I've attached my WIP. Please
> be gentle :) I'll post the github link in a bit when I've fixed up
> some meta info.

Thanks! I will have a look at it on github (once you share the link).

Regards,

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