Re: Clearing global statistics

Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm thinking that I should rename this new function 
>> to pg_stat_reset_bgwriter so it's obvious how limited its target is.
>>     
>
> I don't think it is a good name because we might have another cluster-level
> statictics not related with bgwriter in the future. I hope you will suggest
> "extensible" method when you improve this area.
>   
I follow what you mean now.  I'll take a look at allowing pg_stat_reset 
to act on an input as you suggested, rather than adding more of these 
UDFs for every time somebody adds a new area they want to target clearing.

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