On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 12:23:40PM +0300, Konstantin Knizhnik wrote: > Concerning keeping PGPROC size as small as possible, I agree that it is > reasonable argument. > But even now it is very large (816 bytes) and adding extra 8 bytes will > increase it on less than 1%.
It does not mean that we should add all kind of things to PGPROC as that's a structure sensitive enough already. By the way, why do you assume that 8-byte reads are always safe and atomic in the patch? > Right now pg_stat_activity also accessing PGPROC to obtain wait event > information and also not taking any locks. > So it can wrongly report backend status. But I never heard that somebody > complains about it. Please see pgstat.h, close to pgstat_report_wait_start(). -- Michael
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