I have just noticed that a column "txn_start" has appeared in pg_stat_activity since 8.2. It's a good idea, but who chose the name? We do not use that abbreviation for "transaction" anywhere else in Postgres, certainly not in any user-exposed places.
I'm inclined to rename it to "xact_start", which is an abbreviation that we *do* use in the code, and in some user-visible places, eg, pg_stat_database has "xact_commit" and "xact_rollback" columns. Other suggestions? If we don't change it before 8.3 beta starts, we'll be stuck with it ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly