Re: pg_stat_*_columns?

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Joel Jacobson <joel@trustly.com> wrote:
> Is there any chance the project would accept a patch which adds the
> pg_stat_*_columns-feature without first optimizing the collector?

I doubt it.  It's such a pain point already that massively increasing
the amount of data we need to store does not seem like a good plan.

> I guess it
> primarily depends on how much of the new code that would need to be
> rewritten, if the collector is optimized/rewritten in the future?

I don't think that's really the issue.  It's more that I think it
would be the extra data would be likely to cause real pain for users.

FWIW, I tend to think that the solution here has less to do with
splitting the data up into more files and more to do with rethinking
the format.

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