Re: identifying the backend that owns a temporary schema

On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 at 05:29, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:

> Having this function would be great (I admit I never responded because
> I never figured out if your suggestion was right or not:). But should
> it also be added to the pg_stat_activity view? Perhaps even just in
> the SQL view using the function.
>
> Alternately should pg_stat_activity show the actual temp schema name
> instead of the id? I don't recall if it's visible outside the backend
> but if it is, could pg_stat_activity show whether the temp schema is
> actually attached or not?
>

Would it work to cast the schema oid to type regnamespace? Then the actual
data (numeric oid) would be present in the view, but it would display as
text.