Re: Feature improvement: can we add queryId for pg_catalog.pg_stat_activity view?

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, torikoshia <torikoshia@oss.nttdata.com>, Atsushi Torikoshi <atorik@gmail.com>, Tatsuro Yamada <tatsuro.yamada.tf@nttcom.co.jp>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Evgeny Efimkin <efimkin@yandex-team.ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-03-17T15:28:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> We are reaching the two-year mark on this feature, that everyone seems
> to agree is needed.  Is any committer going to work on this to get it
> into PG 14?  Should I take it?

I still say that it's a serious mistake to sanctify a query ID calculation
method that was designed only for pg_stat_statement's needs as the one
true way to do it.  But that's what exposing it in a core view would do.

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. Clarify description of pg_stat_statements columns

  2. Fix wording in description of pg_stat_statements.toplevel

  3. Mention that toplevel is part of pg_stat_statements key.

  4. adjust query id feature to use pg_stat_activity.query_id

  5. Update copyright for 2021

  6. Take the statistics collector out of the loop for monitoring backends'