Tom Lane wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) writes: > > Add GUC update_process_title to control whether 'ps' display is updated > > for every command, default to on. > > It strikes me that the ps_status support provides one important bit of > information that is currently hard to get elsewhere; specifically, the > "waiting" flag that gets added while blocked on a lock. You can find > out if a process is blocked by looking in pg_locks, but that's a fairly > expensive probe in itself and then you have to join to pg_stat_activity > to make any sense of it. I wonder if we should add a "waiting" boolean > column to pg_stat_activity? Given the new implementation of > pg_stat_activity, updating such a flag would be pretty cheap.
Nice idea. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
