| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nigel Heron <nheron(at)querymetrics(dot)com>, Mike Blackwell <mike(dot)blackwell(at)rrd(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, PgHacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: stats for network traffic WIP |
| Date: | 2013-12-11 18:51:51 |
| Message-ID: | 684.1386787911@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>> Is there a reason why you can't get this directly from the OS?
> I would say that its more of a convenience to track the usage directly
> from the database instead of setting up OS infrastructure to store it.
The thing that I'm wondering is why the database would be the right place
to be measuring it at all. If you've got a network usage problem,
aggregate usage across everything on the server is probably what you
need to be worried about, and PG can't tell you that.
regards, tom lane
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