On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 19:04, Peter Eisentraut<pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > On Thursday 06 August 2009 17:33:40 Tom Lane wrote: >> I don't think there'd be much logical difficulty in having an output >> field (ie, CSV column or log_line_prefix escape) that represents a >> classification of the PID, say as "postmaster, backend, AV worker, >> AV launcher, bgwriter, ...". It would only require changing things >> in one place, whereas your original proposal seemed mighty open-ended. > > You might be able to achieve that if you use the %q escape and put something > after the %q that you can search for.
You could do part of it, but you could still not differ them from each other. And really, it seems very much like a kludge to me. I'd rather have a "proper field" for it. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers