Re: Patch set under development to add usage reporting.

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

Tom Lane writes:
 > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:

 > > 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.
 > 
 > I presume we need not worry about that, since the SQL committee are
 > certainly not going to standardize something that's only there for
 > DBs that don't support information_schema.
 > 
 > Actually, the idea of standardizing anything at all in this area seems
 > pretty bogus.  The events that are interesting to measure are below the
 > semantic level of the standard --- for instance, how are you going to
 > count index searches, when the standard doesn't even recognize the
 > existence of indexes?  Let alone things like buffer cache hits, which is
 > a concept that might not exist at all in some implementations.  I think
 > we can safely assume that the proposed standardization effort will go
 > nowhere, and just look at whether this is interesting for Postgres.
 > 

        Thanks for the feedback. I do agree, and sorry for any
confusion, the SHOW syntax was not meant for standardization at the
SQL level. We will keep your other remarks in mind as we proceed.

        Best regards!

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                                       John
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