Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 8/9/2005 12:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>> This reminds me I've forgot to ask, is there any other way of getting
>>> rid of those ghost entries than via big load ?
>>
>>
>> Not at the moment. It might be worth teaching the pgstats code to
>> cross-check the activity list every so often, but the only place
>> where it'd really fit naturally is vacuum_tabstats which is probably
>> not executed often enough to be helpful.
>>
>> Or maybe we could just filter the data on the reading side: ignore
>> anything the stats collector reports that doesn't correspond to a
>> live backend according to the PGPROC array.
>>
>> Jan, any thoughts?
>
>
> The reset call is supposed to throw away everything. If it leaves crap
> behind, I'd call that a bug.
>
> IIRC the pg_stat functions don't examine the shared memory, but rely
> entirely on information from the stats file. It sure would be possible
> to add something there that checks the PGPROC array.
Is that the same stats reset that effects autovacuum?