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
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 21:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
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?
Me.
I'm inclined to rename it to xact_start, which is an abbreviation
that we *do* use in the code, and in
Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I personally find xact to be a less intuitive abbreviation of
transaction than txn, but for the sake of consistency, I agree it is
probably better to use xact_start.
Barring other objections, I'll go make this happen.
regards, tom
