Re: pgstat_send_connstats() introduces unnecessary timestamp and UDP overhead

On 2021-09-01 05:39:14 +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-08-31 at 18:55 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 04:55:35AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:In the view of that, how about doubling
PGSTAT_STAT_INTERVALto 1000
 
> > > 
> > > > milliseconds?  That would mean slightly less up-to-date statistics, but
> > > > I doubt that that will be a problem.
> >
> > I think it's not helpful. Still increases the number of messages substantially in workloads
> > with a lot of connections doing occasional queries. Which is common.
> 
> How come?  If originally you send table statistics every 500ms, and now you send
> table statistics and session statistics every second, that should amount to the
> same thing.  Where is my misunderstanding?

Consider the case of one query a second.