Re: Effect of stopped status collector process

Siddharth Shah <siddharth.shah@elitecore.com> writes:
> I have found pgstat.stat file taking too much write hits.
> As my need to deploy on flash based storage. I don't want higher I/O's
> To stop status collector process I have change postmaster.c by removing
> calls of pgstat.c
> Now every thing is working fine, Status collector process is not initiated ?

> Any drawbacks for not writing pgstat.stat ?

Autovacuum doesn't work ...

If you are willing to run a hand-hacked version then I'd suggest doing
your experimentation with CVS HEAD.  There are changes in place already
to reduce the stats file traffic.

            regards, tom lane