2014-08-13 7:19 GMT+02:00 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>:

> Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Doing a join on pg_stat_activity and pg_locks is not going to help
> > much as you could only get the moment when query has started or its
> > state has changed. Have you thought about the addition of a new column
> > in pg_locks containing the timestamp of the moment a lock has been
> > taken? I am sure that we are concerned about the performance impact
> > that extra calls to gettimeofday could have though...
>
> In theory this could be driven off the same gettimeofday needed to
> start the deadlock_timeout timer.  Not sure how messy that'd be.
>

we use it in out custom patch without problems

Pavel


>
>                         regards, tom lane
>

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