I wrote:
> Now I'm working on storing statistics into disks on server
> shutdown. If it is impossible unless the module is in core,
> I would change my policy...
I reconsidered this part and found that pg_stat_statements needs to be
in core to write stats in file on server shutdown because:
1. shared_preload_libraries are only loaded in postmaster and backends. 2. Postmaster should write stats file because
itis the only process that knows when to shutdown. 3. Postmaster cannot attach shared memory which contains
statementstats because it cannot acquire LWLocks at all.
My next plan is put pg_stat_statements into core and treat it just like as
freespacemap in 8.3 or before. Stats file is read by bootstrap process and
written down by bgwriter process. All of the codes in pg_stat_statements
will be merged into pgstat.c and some of interface functions will be called
from ExecutorRun instead of using ExecutorRun_hook.
If no objections, I'll go ahead in the direction.
Regards,
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ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Open Source Software Center