Re: Feature improvement: can we add queryId for pg_catalog.pg_stat_activity view?

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
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Subject: Re: Feature improvement: can we add queryId for pg_catalog.pg_stat_activity view?
Date: 2021-03-17 15:40:23
Message-ID: 20210317154023.GB16650@momjian.us
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 11:28:38AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > We are reaching the two-year mark on this feature, that everyone seems
> > to agree is needed. Is any committer going to work on this to get it
> > into PG 14? Should I take it?
>
> I still say that it's a serious mistake to sanctify a query ID calculation
> method that was designed only for pg_stat_statement's needs as the one
> true way to do it. But that's what exposing it in a core view would do.

OK, I am fine with creating a new method, and maybe having
pg_stat_statements use it. Is that the direction we should be going in?
I do think we need _some_ method in core if we are going to be exposing
this value in pg_stat_activity and log_line_prefix.

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