Hi, On 2018-07-03 15:13:20 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Are the numerical values actually exposed to the world? I thought the > only way to this info was through the system views, which surely expose > the names, not the numbers.
There's at least some work at high frequency sampling of these, and I assume that's not going through SQL, but rather C functions. > If reading wait events is actually possible, then it seems easy to > backpatch this in pg10 by putting the new value at the end of the > relevant enum, yeah. Honestly, I don't really see an argument for backpatching this. If people started measuring it might even invalidate their stats. Greetings, Andres Freund
