Re: Performance monitor

> Bruce Momjian writes:
> ...
>  > The problem I see with the shared memory idea is that some of the
>  > information needed may be quite large.  For example, query strings can
>  > be very long.  Do we just allocate 512 bytes and clip off the rest.  And
>  > as I add more info, I need more shared memory per backend.  I just liked
>  > the file system dump solution because I could modify it pretty easily,
>  > and because the info only appears when you click on the process, it
>  > doesn't happen often.
>  > 
> Have you thought about using a named pipe?  They've been around for quite a
> while, and should (he said with a :-)) be available on most-if-not-all
> currently supported systems.

Nifty idea.

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