On Apr 3, 2006, at 12:52 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

"Kevin Grittner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Is there any way to tweak this in favor of more accurate information,
even if has a performance cost?  We're finding that during normal
operations we're not seeing most connections added to the
pg_stat_activity table. We would like to be able to count on accurate
information there.

That's basically a non-starter because of the delay in reporting from
the stats collector process (ie, even if the information was "completely accurate" it'd still be stale by the time that your code gets its hands on it). I think you'd be talking about a complete redesign of the stats
subsystem to be able to use it that way.

BTW, there's some effort going into adding monitoring probes such as dtrace to PostgreSQL. These would likely be ideal for what you're trying to do.
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