Re: Expose checkpoint start/finish times into SQL.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Theo Schlossnagle <jesus(at)omniti(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Expose checkpoint start/finish times into SQL.
Date: 2008-04-04 01:26:46
Message-ID: 29939.1207272406@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> I would agree with this. We would need a history of checkpoints that
> didn't reset until we told it to.

Indeed, but the submitted patch has nought whatsoever to do with that.
It exposes some instantaneous state.

You could perhaps *build* a log facility on top of that, at the SQL
level; but I don't see the point, and I definitely disagree that it
would be "easier than trolling the logs".

regards, tom lane

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