Re: temporary statistics option at initdb time

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Actually, I think maybe not so hard. Attached is a patch that fixes
> this. It's done by keeping the old filename around. When you change the
> path, the stats collector will start writing the new file the next time
> it writes something (which should be max 0.5 seconds later if something
> is happening). The backends will immediately try to read from the new
> filename, but if that one is not found, they will switch to reading the
> old filename. This obviously fails if you change the temp directory
> twice in less than half a second, but I really don't see a use-case for
> that...

I think this is introducing complication and race conditions to solve a
problem that no one will really care about.  Just let people change the
filename at SIGHUP and document that doing that on-the-fly may cause
stats queries to fail for a short interval.
        regards, tom lane