Re: temporary statistics option at initdb time

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think this is introducing complication and race conditions to solve a
>> problem that no one will really care about.  Just let people change the
>> filename at SIGHUP and document that doing that on-the-fly may cause
>> stats queries to fail for a short interval.

> Ok, I'll do it that way.

BTW, it might be worth tweaking the stats collector to dump stats
immediately after responding to SIGHUP, just to narrow this window
as much as possible.

[ squint... ]  Actually, it looks like the stats collector SIG_IGNores
SIGHUP?  That can't be right (any more) can it?
        regards, tom lane