Re: reducing statistics write overhead

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Some sort of "if stats were requested in the last 500 ms, just tell the
> requester to read the existing file".

> Things that come to mind:

> - autovacuum could use a more frequent stats update in certain cases

BTW, we could implement that by, instead of having a global tunable,
including a field in the request message saying how stale an existing
file is acceptable for this requestor.  500ms might be the standard
value but autovac could use a smaller number.
        regards, tom lane