Re: Location for pgstat.stat

Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> But pending that we have that, how about we just move it into it's own
>> subdirectory?
>> This would make it possible to symlink or mount that directory off to a
>> ramdrive (for example).
> 
> Hmm ... that would almost certainly result in the stats being lost over
> a system shutdown.  How much do we care?

Only for those who put it on a ramdrive. The default, unless you
move/sync it off, would still be the same as it is today. While not
perfect, the performance difference of going to a ramdrive might easily
be enough to offset that in some cases, I think.

//Magnus