On tor, 2010-09-16 at 19:14 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > I think that there should be a function which returns just this one > piece of data and is not automatically called as part of select * from > pg_stat_activity. Then we could eventually decide to give backends a > way to know if that function had been invoked on them and how > recently.
Displaying this as part of pg_stat_activity is completely trivial: it's just displaying the value of a float variable. It seems you are advocating a completely different architecture, where someone can find out on demand what the progress or status of another session is, without that other session having known about that request before it started its current command. But that seems pretty outlandish to me, and I would ask for more details on what you have in mind. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
