Re: pgstat_send_connstats() introduces unnecessary timestamp and UDP overhead

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 04:55:35AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> In the view of that, how about doubling PGSTAT_STAT_INTERVAL to 1000
> milliseconds?  That would mean slightly less up-to-date statistics, but
> I doubt that that will be a problem.  And it should even out the increase
> in statistics messages, except in the case of lots of short-lived
> sessions.  But in that scenario you cannot have session statistics
> without lots of extra messages, and such a workload has enough performance
> problems as it is, so I don't think we have to specifically worry about it.

Perhaps we could do that.  Now, increasing an interval for the sake of
balancing the extra load created by a feature while impacting the
whole set of stats is not really appealing.
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Michael