Re: Pet Peeves?

Erik Jones escribió:

> One workaround I came up with a while back for that is to edit the stat
> file name to be in a separate directory under global (like
> <datadir>/global/pg_stats/pgstat.stat) and mount a ramfs there.  Of
> course, a custom compile isn't always an option but it removed a *ton*
> of IO on that db (had thousands upon thousands of tables).  Also, if you
> do that you need to be sure to copy pgstat.stat to a permanent place
> periodically unless you want to risk losing all of your stats.

Hmm, you don't really need to copy it periodically -- you need to do it
on shutdown only.  If the system crashes, the recovery code will delete
the pgstats file anyway.

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