> Bruce Momjian writes:
> ...
> > The problem I see with the shared memory idea is that some of the
> > information needed may be quite large. For example, query strings can
> > be very long. Do we just allocate 512 bytes and clip off the rest. And
> > as I add more info, I need more shared memory per backend. I just liked
> > the file system dump solution because I could modify it pretty easily,
> > and because the info only appears when you click on the process, it
> > doesn't happen often.
> >
> Have you thought about using a named pipe? They've been around for quite a
> while, and should (he said with a :-)) be available on most-if-not-all
> currently supported systems.
Nifty idea.
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