Re: Order of pg_stat_activity timestamp columns

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Order of pg_stat_activity timestamp columns
Date: 2010-03-17 21:17:42
Message-ID: 26161.1268860662@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> That's a possibility, but we obviously have been adding columns
> out-of-order for several releases now and no one has complained.

On balance I'm for rationalizing this. The query_start time is
logically associated with current_query and waiting, so it ought
to be next to them. Without the historical fact that we've mucked
with the column ordering before, I might've voted differently.

regards, tom lane

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