Excerpts from Greg Sabino Mullane's message of jue jun 16 15:33:35 UTC 2011:
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> Hash: RIPEMD160
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> >> Or perhaps pg_connections. Yes, +1 to making things fully backwards
> >> compatible by keeping pg_stat_activity around but making a better
> >> designed and better named table (view/SRF/whatever).
> 
> > I thought about that too when reading the thread the first time, but 
> > "pg_stat_sessions" sounds better. Our documentation also primarily refers 
> > to a 
> > database connection as a "session", i think.
> 
> No, this is clearly connections, not sessions. At least based on the items 
> in the postgresql.conf file, especially max_connections (probably one of the 
> items most closely associated with pg_stat_activity)

That doesn't include autovacuum, though, whereas the new view would.

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