On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 18:46 -0800, Jeff Frost wrote: > What does the message 'statistics buffer is full' mean? And if I saw lots of > these in my logs what sort of bad things would happen? Presumably this is > related to the planner statistics? Would I expect to have bad plans if this > happens and how would I resolve it? This is what I found in the source, but > I'm not really sure what's going on here: Usually it means that you have stats_command_string turned on :) > > Part of: > > pgstat_recvbuffer(void) > <snip> > /* > * As long as we have buffer space we add the socket to the read > * descriptor set. > */ > if (msg_have <= (int) (PGSTAT_RECVBUFFERSZ - sizeof(PgStat_Msg)) > ) > { > FD_SET(pgStatSock, &rfds); > maxfd = pgStatSock; > overflow = false; > } > else > { > if (!overflow) > { > ereport(LOG, > (errmsg("statistics buffer is full"))); > overflow = true; > } > } > > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate