Re: Performance monitor

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-03-08T03:12:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> At 18:05 7/03/01 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> All in all, I do not see this as an easy task that you can whip out and
> >> then release as a 7.1 patch without extensive testing.  And given that,
> >> I'd rather see it done with what I consider the right long-term approach,
> >> rather than a dead-end hack.  I think doing it in a signal handler is
> >> ultimately going to be a dead-end hack.
> >
> >Well, the signal stuff will get me going at least.
> 
> Didn't someone say this can't be done safely - or am I missing something?

OK, I will write just the all-process display part, that doesn't need
any per-backend info because it gets it all from 'ps'.  Then maybe
someone will come up with a nifty idea, or I will play with my local
copy to see how it can be done.

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