Re: pg_locks view versus prepared transactions

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)surnet(dot)cl>
To: Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_locks view versus prepared transactions
Date: 2005-06-20 20:08:43
Message-ID: 20050620200843.GA9005@surnet.cl
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 03:55:45PM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:

> > Ultimately we should maybe even remove PID from pg_locks, but probably
> > for backwards compatibility it'd have to be deprecated for a release
> > or two first.
>
> It is interesting to note that systems with stats disabled are unable to
> get lock owner information in this case (so what?).

We could make the pg_stat_activity view show information from the
ProcArray shared struct, when stats are disabled.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]surnet.cl>)
"In fact, the basic problem with Perl 5's subroutines is that they're not
crufty enough, so the cruft leaks out into user-defined code instead, by
the Conservation of Cruft Principle." (Larry Wall, Apocalypse 6)

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