Re: pg_dump's aborted transactions

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> Apologies for the confusion- the client isn't using it to determine if
> there's activity.  They're using it exactly as it's intended, as I
> understand it- to check and see if the number of rollbacks is
> signifigant compared to the number of commits.  The issue is that, with
> databases that have little activity, you can end up with a commit ratio
> of 50% or less.  Perhaps check_postgres could have an option to only
> complain when some minimum number of transactions has been reached..

That sounds like a much better idea.  pg_dump isn't really doing
anything wrong here, so "fixing" it feels like the wrong solution.

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