Re: Generic Monitoring Framework Proposal

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Robert Lor <Robert(dot)Lor(at)Sun(dot)COM>, Theo Schlossnagle <jesus(at)omniti(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Generic Monitoring Framework Proposal
Date: 2006-06-20 14:34:13
Message-ID: 27941.1150814053@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> What would be useful is instrumenting high level calls that can't be traced
> without application guidance. For example, inserting a dtrace probe for each
> SQL and each plan node. That way someone could get the same info as EXPLAIN
> ANALYZE from a production server without having to make application
> modifications (or suffer the gettimeofday overhead).

My bogometer just went off again. How is something like dtrace going to
magically get realtime information without reading the clock?

regards, tom lane

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