Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 21:42, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > Has anyone ever noticed that the order of pg_stat_activity timestamp > > columns is illogical: > > > > ?xact_start ? ? ? | timestamp with time zone | > > ?query_start ? ? ?| timestamp with time zone | > > ?backend_start ? ?| timestamp with time zone | > > Well, 7.4 had only "query start". 8.1 added backend. 8.3 added > transaction. So I guess my original guess that things were just added > on the end was wrong :-) > > > > query_start is always between the other two timestamps. ?Moving > > query_start before xact_start would make the most sense. ?I wouldn't > > bring this up except we just added application_name before these > > columns, so we are already going to have different column locations for > > these fields in 9.0. > > > > Should we move query_start? > > Or perhaps we should consider moving application_name to the end so it > *doesn't* break them?
That's a possibility, but we obviously have been adding columns out-of-order for several releases now and no one has complained. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com PG East: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
