Re: Adding percentile metrics to pg_stat_statements module

On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 11:11:13AM -0300, Igor Calabria wrote:
>Yeah, I agree that there's no reason to store the digests themselves and I
>really liked the idea of it being optional.

That's not what I wrote. My point was that we *should* store the digests
themselves, otherwise we just introduce additional errors into the
estimates, because it discards the weights/frequencies.

>If it turns out that memory consumption on real workloads is small enough,
>it could eventually be turned on by default.
>

Maybe, but it's not just about memory consumption. CPU matters too.

regards

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