Re: BUG #13620: Streaming replication process titles should use zero padding for TX ids.

On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:40:02 -0300
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> Michael Paquier wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Jürgen Strobel wrote:
> > > I understand this is not a bug in the sense that it displays wrong
> > > information, nor that I cannot get the information in a different way.
> > > The problem is that the proctitle functionality, which is very
> > > convenient and much faster than typing the SELECT above, is diminished
> > > by easily misleading people when it displays this id in hex encoding
> > > without zero padding.
> >
> > Nothing prevents you to have a bash alias or a custom script doing
> > that.
>
> I agree with Jürgen, we should zero-pad this. This stuff is
> user-unfriendly enough without having to count chars or write shell
> functions.

+1

-dg

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