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

Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>

From: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Nitin Jadhav <nitinjadhavpostgres@gmail.com>, Hannu Krosing <hannuk@google.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@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: 2021-04-21T15:28:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 2021/04/21 1:22, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 02:33:26PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 01:30:16PM -0400, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> On 2021-Apr-12, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK, the attached patch renames pg_stat_activity.queryid to 'query_id'. I
>>>> have not changed any of the APIs which existed before this feature was
>>>> added, and are called "queryid" or "queryId" --- it is kind of a mess.
>>>> I assume I should leave those unchanged.  It will also need a catversion
>>>> bump.
>>>
>>> I think it is fine actually.  These names appear in structs Query and
>>> PlannedStmt, and every single member of those already uses camelCase
>>> naming.  Changing those to use "query_id" would look out of place.
>>> You did change the one in PgBackendStatus to st_query_id, which also
>>> matches the naming style in that struct, so that looks fine also.
>>>
>>> So I'm -1 on Julien's first proposed change, and +1 on his second
>>> proposed change (the name of the first argument of
>>> pgstat_report_query_id should be query_id).
>>
>> Thanks for your analysis.  Updated patch attached with the change
>> suggested above.
> 
> Patch applied.

I found another small issue in pg_stat_statements docs. The following
description in the docs should be updated so that toplevel is included?

> This view contains one row for each distinct database ID, user ID and query ID

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao
Advanced Computing Technology Center
Research and Development Headquarters
NTT DATA CORPORATION



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'