Re: system views for walsender activity

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 10:50 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Eh... I may be showing my status as a non-normal human, but I know
> > exactly what pg_stat_walsender is (it's the view that shows you the
> > status of the WAL senders you've allowed by configuring
> > max_wal_senders>0) but I have no idea what pg_stat_replication_sent
> > and pg_stat_replication_received are supposed to be.  Why two views?
> > *scratches head in confusion*
> 
> How about one view, called "pg_stat_replication"?  This would be clear
> even to newbies, which none of the other view names would ...

hmmm I think "pg_stat_standby" might be more relevant but I definitely
agree something more newbie appropriate is in order.

Joshua D. Drake

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