On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 12:50 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > I'm sorry to raise this now. The earlier proposal for "track_" wasn't
> > supported by anyone that I can see, even though we decided to change the
> > way the stats parameters were arranged on those earlier threads.
>
> Well, there was at least one other person who liked "track" at the time:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-07/msg00996.php
> which gave it about as much support as any other alternative that was
> mentioned :-(
>
> While I don't have any strong objection to changing "track" to "monitor",
> I'm not enthused by the other parts of your proposal.
> In particular
> I do object to using "activity" for the variable that is specifically
> *not* associated with feeding pg_stat_activity.
Thats a good point, that would be very confusing.
So it should be stats_command_string --> monitor_activity
...and the other one would be monitor_counts? OK, that fits for me.
-- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com
