Thanks for the feedback Tom. An initial patch for this has been posted to pgsql-patches.

Cheers,
T

Tom Lane wrote:
Thomas Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
How does this sound:

* A new GUC variable -- "activity_message_size" -- will be introduced

Well, "message" doesn't seem quite le mot juste to me for a column that
is displaying a SQL command.  Usually we'd use "statement", "command",
or "query" to refer to one of those things.  Since the relevant column
of pg_stat_activity is already named "current_query", perhaps the
best choice is "activity_query_size".  Or "activity_query_length"?

Another consideration is that it might be a good idea to name it to
be obviously related to the controlling "track_activities" boolean.
That would lead to "track_activity_query_size", or
"track_activity_max_length", or some such.

* Minimum value of PGBE_DEFAULT_ACTIVITY_SIZE, maximum value of INT_MAX?

I was thinking about a range of 100 to 100K or thereabouts.  INT_MAX
is just silly...

I'm struggling a little to come up with a decent description of the GUC variable -- something along the lines of "Sets the maximum length of backend status messages". Any suggestions?

Be specific:
"Sets the maximum length of pg_stat_activity.current_query."

Also: how should we allocate the memory for PgBackendStatus.st_activity? I'm guessing it's going to be necessary to keep this in shmem ...

Yup.  Look at existing variable-size shmem allocations.
max_prepared_transactions might be a good reference, since it's not
used in very many places.

                        regards, tom lane



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