Re: Using ProcSignal to get memory context stats from a running backend

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> I do wonder if the right thing here wouldn't be to put the result into a
> dsm segment, and then return that to the UDF on the requesting
> side. Logging to the server log and then have the requestor dig that out
> doesn't seem particularly user friendly.

I think that dumping it to the server log will be fine for most
people, and it's *significantly* safer.  Creating a DSM segment could
fail, and the last thing we want is for interrogating a long-running
backend to make it crap out.

+1 for this whole concept, just BTW.  As I've said before, I grow
weary of asking customers to run gdb.

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