Re: auxiliary processes in pg_stat_ssl

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 8:26 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2019-Sep-04, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > I just noticed that we list auxiliary processes in pg_stat_ssl:
> [...]
> > But this seems pointless. Should we not hide those? Seems this only
> > happened as an unintended side-effect of fc70a4b0df38. It appears to me
> > that we should redefine that view to restrict backend_type that's
> > 'client backend' (maybe include 'wal receiver'/'wal sender' also, not
> > sure.)
>
> [crickets]
>
> Robert, Kuntal, any opinion on this?

I think if I were doing something about it, I'd probably try to filter
on a field that directly represents whether there is a connection,
rather than checking the backend type. That way, if the list of
backend types that have client connections changes later, there's
nothing to update. Like "WHERE client_port IS NOT NULL," or something
of that sort.

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