Re: system views for walsender activity

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: system views for walsender activity
Date: 2011-01-04 19:25:30
Message-ID: 1294169130.6949.40.camel@jd-desktop
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On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 10:50 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Eh... I may be showing my status as a non-normal human, but I know
> > exactly what pg_stat_walsender is (it's the view that shows you the
> > status of the WAL senders you've allowed by configuring
> > max_wal_senders>0) but I have no idea what pg_stat_replication_sent
> > and pg_stat_replication_received are supposed to be. Why two views?
> > *scratches head in confusion*
>
> How about one view, called "pg_stat_replication"? This would be clear
> even to newbies, which none of the other view names would ...

hmmm I think "pg_stat_standby" might be more relevant but I definitely
agree something more newbie appropriate is in order.

Joshua D. Drake

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