Re: Patch set under development to add usage reporting.

[John Murtari <jmurtari(at)thebook(dot)com>]

Peter
 > >         I had taken a look at existing statistics reporting (at
 > > least in the 7.4.x tree) and didn't see a good analog to what this
 > > provides.
 > 
 > The statistics collector detailed at
 > <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/monitoring-stats.html>
 > appears to do pretty much the same, although on a slightly lower level.
 > But that's the logical place where to add that in PostgreSQL.
 > 
 > >        We had proposed this as a comment on an earlier version of
 > > the standard.  From discussion with some senior committee members,
 > > it would appear the best fit for this type of capability might
 > > be in the INFORMATION SCHEMA part of the standard.  We also had
 > > developed the "SHOW STATISTICS" syntax for DB version that don't
 > > support INFORMATION SCHEMA.
 > 
 > I don't really get the point of the SHOW STATISTICS command.  There is
 > already a command whose purpose is to retrieve data in tabular form,
 > namely SELECT.

          Okay, thank you. We will take another look at those items.
          Best regards!

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                                       John
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