Re: system views for walsender activity

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 21:46, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> Unfortunately, 2 also requires initdb because pg_stat_activity will
>> use LEFT JOIN instead of normal JOIN not to hide rows with databaseid = 0.
>> All of them are items for 9.1.
>
> Did this one end up on the floor?
>
> We definitely need the very basic level for 9.1, and we can always
> improve on it later :-) Do you want to keep working on it, or do you
> want me to pick it up?

OK, I'll work for it.

> I'm not sure it makes much sense to add walsenders to pg_stat_activity
> - a lot of the fields would no longer make any sense (statement start?
> query start?) - I think we're better off with a separate view for
> pg_stat_walsender. It would then only need the columns for procpid,
> usesysid, usename, client_addr, client_port, and the WALsender
> specific fields.

+1 for the separate view. "backend_start" (or replication_start?)
might be also reasonable.

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Itagaki Takahiro