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

On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 05:16:50PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
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> st 17. 3. 2021 v 17:03 odesílatel Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> napsal:
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> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 11:28:38AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> 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.
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> > 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?
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> The point is that we've understood Query.queryId as something that
> different extensions might calculate differently for their own needs.
> In particular it's easy to imagine extensions that want an ID that is
> less fuzzy than what pg_stat_statements wants.  We never had a plan for
> how two such extensions could co-exist, but at least it was possible
> to use one if you didn't use another.  If this gets moved into core
> then there will basically be only one way that anyone can do it.
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> Maybe what we need is a design for allowing more than one query ID.
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> Theoretically there can be a hook for calculation of queryid, that can be by
> used extension. Default can be assigned with a method that is used by
> pg_stat_statements.

Yes, that is what the code patch says it does.

> I don't think it is possible to use more different query id for
> pg_stat_statements so this solution can be simple.

Agreed.

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