| From: | Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Singh <amitksingh(dot)mumbai(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu(dot)coek88(at)gmail(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Add sub-transaction overflow status in pg_stat_activity |
| Date: | 2022-11-15 05:25:48 |
| Message-ID: | CAFiTN-sRJt2Vrwo5it_=kBg8FZ_4Zsr2_A8vTwHkx44TdYhTNA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 10:18 PM David G. Johnston
<david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Do you have a view on this point?
>>
>
> NULL when overflowed seems like the opposite of the desired effect, calling attention to the exceptional status. Make it a text column and write "overflow" or "###" as appropriate. Anyone using the column is going to end up wanting to special-case overflow anyway and number-to-text conversion aside from overflow is simple enough if a number, and not just a display label, is needed.
+1, if we are interested to add only one column then this could be the
best way to show.
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Regards,
Dilip Kumar
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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