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> For me, the litmus test is whether the change provides enough > improvement that it outweighs the disruption when the user runs into > it. For the procpid that started all of this, the clear answer is no. I'm surprised people seriously considered making this change. It's a historical accident: document and move on. And if we are going to talk about changing misnamed things, I've got a whole bunch of others I could throw at you (such as abbreviation rules: blks_read on the one extreme, and autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor on the other) :) > This is why I suggested a specific, useful, and commonly requested > (to me at least) change to pg_stat_activity go along with this. +1. The procpid change is silly, but fixing the current_query field would be very useful. You don't know how many times my fingers have typed "WHERE current_query <> '<IDLE>'" - -- Greg Sabino Mullane g...@turnstep.com End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/ PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 201106142300 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREDAAYFAk34IRoACgkQvJuQZxSWSsi0dgCgi37mrLYbD6G3dS99GPbSFhHW EjYAniZNpRUXxYmhBHfb1k1LsMSoOHE7 =61nA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
