Re: Order of pg_stat_activity timestamp columns

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-03-17T21:17:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> That's a possibility, but we obviously have been adding columns
> out-of-order for several releases now and no one has complained.

On balance I'm for rationalizing this.  The query_start time is
logically associated with current_query and waiting, so it ought
to be next to them.  Without the historical fact that we've mucked
with the column ordering before, I might've voted differently.

			regards, tom lane