Re: procpid? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: procpid?
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Msg-id 201106112023.p5BKNOq03290@momjian.us
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In response to Re: procpid?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Re: procpid?
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On 6/11/2011 1:02 AM, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Jim Nasby<jim@nasby.net>  wrote:
> >> It's damn annoying... enough so that I'd personally be in favor of creating a pid column that has the same data so
wecan deprecate
 
> >> procpid and eventually remove it...
> > well, if we will start changing bad picked names we will have a *lot*
> > of work to do... starting by the project's name ;)
> 
> There is a difference between a project name and something that directly 
> affects usability. +1 on fixing this. IMO, we don't create a new pid 
> column, we just fix the problem. If we do it for 9.2, we have 18 months 
> to communicate the change.

Uh, I am the first one I remember complaining about this so I don't see
why we should break compatibility for such a low-level problem.

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