Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum "connections" are hidden

From: Casey Duncan <casey(at)pandora(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Larry Rosenman <lrosenman(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum "connections" are hidden
Date: 2006-05-22 21:45:30
Message-ID: E85F55BD-D8E0-416C-8C0E-46FC4BA04575@pandora.com
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On May 22, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>> Moving to -hackers
>
> You forgot to actually do it apparently?
>
> Sorry about posting the patch to -general, BTW. Anyway it was
> committed
> to the 8.1 branch, so it is included in the new release (8.1.4?)
>
>> Does this still obey stats_command_string?
>
> Yes.
>
> I considered having the ps display show the info, but it's not as
> useful
> because you can only get the info if you have access to the process
> list
> (i.e. not a remote client).

It would be useful for dba's watching the box directly, via ps or top
(which I find myself doing fairly often). This has always been a
great feature of postgres IMO. I'd put in a vote for having that for
that for the autovac backend as well FWIW.

In any event thanks a lot for the current fix, as is it's a big
improvement! 8^)

-Casey

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