Re: column name of pg_stat_replication.backend_start

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 14:22, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> The column name of pg_stat_replication.backend_start is confusing because
>> it's not the time when *backend* was started at all. We should rename it to
>> "walsender_start" or "replication_start"?
>
> walsenders are backends, of course.  I think that any clarity we'd get
> from renaming this would be not worth the loss of backward
> compatibility or the inconsistency with pg_stat_activity.

There was a suggestion the other day I think from Bruce to rename it
to session_start in pg_stat_activity. If we do that, we should
probably rename it in pg_stat_replication *as well*, of course...

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