Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> But I'm a bit confused too - does this make any sort of difference?
> Because the startup path for crash recovery is like this:
> pgstat_reset_all();
> so it seems quite inconsequential whether we write out pgstat, because
> we're going to nuke it either way after an immediate shutdown?
The discussion is exactly about whether we shouldn't get rid of that,
rather than doing what's proposed in this patch.
regards, tom lane
