Re: Resetting a single statistics counter

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> 2010/1/24 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> The pg_stat_ prefix is some help but not enough IMO. �So I suggest
>> pg_stat_reset_table_counters and pg_stat_reset_function_counters.

> Doesn't the pg_stat_ part already say this?

My objection is that "reset_table" sounds like something you do to a
table, not something you do to stats.  No, I don't think the prefix is
enough to clarify that.

>> (BTW, a similar complaint could be made about the previously committed
>> patch: reset shared what?)

> Well, it could also be made about the original pg_stat_reset()
> function - reset what?

In that case, there's nothing but the "stat" to suggest what gets
reset, so I think it's less likely to be misleading than the current
proposals.  But if we'd been designing all of these at once, yeah,
I'd have argued for a more verbose name for that one too.
        regards, tom lane