Re: reporting reason for certain locks

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mar nov 23 00:08:54 -0300 2010:
>
>> How about publishing additional details to pg_stat_activity via
>> pgstat_report_waiting()?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here.  Are you suggesting we should create a
> new function with that name to report the reason for the lock?

No, what I was suggesting was taking the existing function:

extern void pgstat_report_waiting(bool waiting);

...and instead doing something like this:

extern void pgstat_report_waiting(char *reason);

...and then arrange to pass the reason via the eponymous argument.

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