Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hmm ... that would almost certainly result in the stats being lost over
>> a system shutdown. How much do we care?
> Only for those who put it on a ramdrive. The default, unless you
> move/sync it off, would still be the same as it is today. While not
> perfect, the performance difference of going to a ramdrive might easily
> be enough to offset that in some cases, I think.
Well, what I was wondering about is whether it'd be worth adding logic
to copy the file to/from a "safer" location at startup/shutdown.
regards, tom lane