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: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, 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: 2021-04-23T10:04:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 2021/04/23 18:46, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 9:10 AM Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2021/04/22 18:23, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 12:28:11AM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> Indeed!  I'm adding Magnus in Cc.
>>>
>>> PFA a patch to fix at, and also mention that toplevel will only
>>> contain True values if pg_stat_statements.track is set to top.
>>
>> Thanks for the patch! LGTM.
> 
> Agreed, in general. But going by the example a few lines down, I
> changed the second part to:
>          True if the query was executed as a top level statement
> +       (if <varname>pg_stat_statements.track</varname> is set to
> +       <literal>all</literal>, otherwise always false)

Isn't this confusing? Users may mistakenly read this as that the toplevel
column always indicates false if pg_stat_statements.track is not "all".


> (changes the wording, but also the name of the parameter is
> pg_stat_statements.track, not pg_stat_statements.toplevel (that's the
> column, not the parameter). Same error in the commit msg except there
> you called it pg_stat_statements.top - but that one needed some more
> fix as well)
> 
> With those changes, applied. Thanks!

Thanks!

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'