Re: Process title for autovac

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Process title for autovac
Date: 2013-04-13 12:56:46
Message-ID: 1365857806.20086.1.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 13:20 -0700, Jeff Janes wrote:
> I've often wanted to know what the autovacuum worker was doing. The
> process title seems like the best place to get this information, but
> the process title tells me what database it is in, but not what table
> it is working on.

Because the process title is publicly visible, you shouldn't put any
"interesting" information in it.

I think what you want might be better kept in pg_stat_activity.

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