On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:32 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > Frequently when reading postgres logs to do some post mortem analysis > I'm left wondering what process emitted an error/log message. After the > fact it's often hard to know wether an error message was emitted by a > user backend or by something internal, say the checkpointer or > autovacuum. Logging all process starts is often impractical given the > log volume that causes. > > So I'm proposing adding an escape displaying the process title (say 'k' > for kind?). So %k would emit something like "autovacuum worker process", > "wal sender process" etc.
It would be nice to get something consistent between the ps output and this new prefix, say with for example a miscadmin.h parameter like MyProcName. > I'm thinking it might make sense to give normal connections "" as the > name, they're usually already discernible. Yeah, that sounds fine for me. What about background workers? I would think that they should use BackgroundWorker->bgw_name. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
