Re: [HACKERS] keeping track of connections

> 
> On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, David Gould wrote:
> 
> > Oh, ok. Some suggestions have been made the the postmaster would open a
> > connection to it's own backend to do queries. I was responding to this.
> > I agree that we should just store the information in shared memory.
> 
> 	How does one get a history for long term monitoring and statistics
> by storing in shared memory?
> 
> Marc G. Fournier                                
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
> primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 

Why not simply append history lines to a normal log file ? In this way you
don't have the overhead for accessing tables and can do real-time processing
of the data with a simple tail -f on the file.
I use this trick to monitor the log file written by 30 backends and it works
fine for me.

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