On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 7:32 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote:
> we need a descriptive term / shorthand that > describes the type of statistics we currently send to the stats collector. > > "cumulative stats subsystem"? > > I'm growing fond of "cumulative". It is more precise (and restrictive) than "metric" but that is beneficial here so long as it is indeed true (which a quick skim of Table 28.2. Collected Statistics Views [1] leads me to believe it is). I'd be concerned that subsystem implies a collection process in a manner similar to how you associated datastore with a physical file on disk. But I'd pick subsystem over datastore here in any case. David J. [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/monitoring-stats.html
