Re: Patch set under development to add usage reporting.

Peter> >         I had taken a look at existing statistics reporting (at> > least in the 7.4.x tree) and didn't see a
goodanalog to what this> > provides.> > The statistics collector detailed at>
<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/monitoring-stats.html>>appears to do pretty much the same, although on
aslightly lower level.> But that's the logical place where to add that in PostgreSQL.> > >        We had proposed this
asa comment on an earlier version of> > the standard.  From discussion with some senior committee members,> > it would
appearthe best fit for this type of capability might> > be in the INFORMATION SCHEMA part of the standard.  We also
had>> developed the "SHOW STATISTICS" syntax for DB version that don't> > support INFORMATION SCHEMA.> > I don't really
getthe point of the SHOW STATISTICS command.  There is> already a command whose purpose is to retrieve data in tabular
form,>namely SELECT.
 
         Okay, thank you. We will take another look at those items.         Best regards!

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