* Tom Lane ([email protected]) wrote: > Michael Paquier <[email protected]> writes: > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 5:21 AM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The fact that the pg_stat_replication view does show walsender processes > >> seems like possibly a reasonable argument for not showing them in > >> pg_stat_activity. But we'd have to do some rejiggering of the view > >> definition to make that happen. > > > We may actually had better show WAL sender processes in > > pg_stat_activity. An argument in favor of that is the tracking of > > WaitEventSet events (or latches if you want). > > Also, walsenders count against MaxBackends don't they? So not showing > them could contribute to confusion about why an installation is hitting > the connection limit. > > If we do keep them in the view, I would definitely vote for having them > set their "query" fields to something that shows they're walsenders. > It's awfully late to be doing anything complicated there for 9.6, > but we could just set the query to "walsender" and plan to improve > on that in future releases.
+1 Thanks! Stephen
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