Re: Small patch to replace 'idle' by 'trans' if transaction is still open

At 10:54 11/10/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>> Any chance of showing if anything has been updated in the TX?
>
>Hmm ... SharedBufferChanged would probably do as a proxy for that ...
>not sure if it's a good idea though.

The idea was to indicate if the process is likely to be causing a locking
problem - but now I think about it, a more useful pice of information would
be if any tables/rows/whatever are locked in such a way that another user
might be prevented from doing an update. Is this possible?

I would maintain that if possible, it is useful to distinguish logical
'read-only' transactions from TXs that might lock another user.

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