Re: pg_stat_replication vs StandbyReplyMessage

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 13:50, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> The pg_stat_replication view exposes all the fields in
>> StandbyReplyMessage *except* for the timestamp when the message was
>> generated. On an active system this is not all that interesting, but
>> on a mostly idle system that allows the monitoring to react faster
>> than the timeout that actually kicks the other end off - and could be
>> useful in manual debugging scenarios. Any particular reason why this
>> was not exposed as it's own column?
>
> I wondered the same thing.  Sounds like a good idea.

I can go do that. Care to argue^Wbikeshed for a specific name?

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