Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 04:29 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>>> Any reason not to just fold them both into stats_start_collector ?
>>>> Well, then you couldn't turn collection on and off without restarting
>>>> the postmaster, which might be a pain.
>>> Maybe we don't actually need stats_start_collector, but instead we start
>>> it always and just have one knob to turn collection on and off. I'm
>>> not sure whether the extra process would bother people if they're not
>>> collecting, but we have so many extra processes now, why would anyone
>>> care.
>> I agree. Let's remove stats_start_collector and merge the other two
>> into a single setting. Anything more than that is overkill.
>>
>> Having a single idle process is not a problem to anyone. It just sleeps
>> all the time. We are all used to having six useless getty processes and
>> nobody cares.
>
> Yes, thats a great plan.
>
It gets my vote.
/D