On Wed, 3 June 1998, at 18:40:10, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > > select * from procs;
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> >
> > "procs" is a pseudo-table that is generated on the fly from the process
> > data structures in the shared memory when queried. There are also
> > pseudo-tables for locks and traces and other information.
That's exactly what I envision. PRobably not what I articulated.
> > The advantage of using SQL is that the data can be selected into other
> > tables, grouped, projected, joined or whatever. The other advantage is
> > that all the exiting clients can take advantage of the data. So if you
> > wanted to write a graphical status monitor, you could do so quite simply
> > in pgtcl.
Exactly.