On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 04:29 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > > Any reason not to just fold them both into stats_start_collector ?
> > >
> > > Well, then you couldn't turn collection on and off without restarting
> > > the postmaster, which might be a pain.
> >
> > Maybe we don't actually need stats_start_collector, but instead we start
> > it always and just have one knob to turn collection on and off. I'm
> > not sure whether the extra process would bother people if they're not
> > collecting, but we have so many extra processes now, why would anyone
> > care.
>
> I agree. Let's remove stats_start_collector and merge the other two
> into a single setting. Anything more than that is overkill.
>
> Having a single idle process is not a problem to anyone. It just sleeps
> all the time. We are all used to having six useless getty processes and
> nobody cares.
Yes, thats a great plan.
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