On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 2:17 AM, Michael Paquier > <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Perhaps DSM? It is not user-friendly to fail sporadically... > > Yeah. I've been thinking we might want to give each backend a > backend-lifetime DSA that is created on first use. That could be > useful for some parallel query stuff and maybe for this as well. > Other backends could attach to it to read data from it, and it would > go away on last detach (which would normally be the detach by the > creating backend, but not if somebody else happens to be reading at > the moment the backend exits). > That seems like a pretty good idea. I've been considering something simliar for the usecase of being able to view the "collected but not sent yet" statistics inside a backend (which tables have been accessed, number of reads etc),and this seems like it could be used for that as well. -- Magnus Hagander Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/>