server status window - query is not clearing one SQL is finished (change in behaviour)

hi There:

I just updated from postgres 9.1.5 to postgres 9.2 which comes with pgAmdin 1.16. Platform is OS-X 10.8.1 that I ran into this issue, so I don't know if it is universal or not.

Once I connect to a server and go to tools->Server Status to watch the commands executing or the look at the log files (both are very handy when debugging code), previous versions of pgAdmin would show a command executing, then when pgAdmin refreshed the lists later, the column called query would go blank when the command was done.

In this version of pgAdmin, the query does not update/clear, even though the state says idle and I know that the command is complete. Effectively, it shows the last statement executed.

If I run a select a statement against a single row table to get my row back, the query window shows the results.
Yet the server stats window still shows the completed query and never goes blank like it used to.

If I close the server status window and re-open it, the last query is still there for that pgAdmin session

I don't know if this is a pgAdmin issue -- or Postgres 9.2.

as a workaround, I ran some test sql against the pg_stat_activity view and manipulated it a bit to add a case statement that cleared the query if the state was idle

SELECT s.datid, d.datname, s.pid, s.usesysid, u.rolname AS usename,
s.application_name, s.client_addr, s.client_hostname, s.client_port,
s.backend_start, s.xact_start, s.query_start, s.state_change, s.waiting,
s.state, case when s.state='idle' then '' else s.query end
FROM pg_database d,
pg_stat_get_activity(NULL::integer) s(datid, pid, usesysid, application_name, state, query, waiting, xact_start, query_start, backend_start, state_change, client_addr, client_hostname, client_port),
pg_authid u
WHERE s.datid = d.oid AND s.usesysid = u.oid;

Again, I don't know if the behaviour changed in the pg_admin window or far deeper in postgres.

I would like to ask for the old behaviour back in the pg_admin server stats page that shows the currently executing query.

thanks in advance and I hope this helps.

Doug Easterbrook
Arts Management Systems Ltd.
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