Re: Fully replacing ps_status (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql:

From: Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Fully replacing ps_status (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql:
Date: 2006-06-27 23:48:12
Message-ID: 44A1C3BC.6080100@paradise.net.nz
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Tom Lane wrote:
> momjian(at)postgresql(dot)org (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.
>
>

Funny - today I was just thinking how useful that would be!

Cheers

Mark

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