Re: BUG #13620: Streaming replication process titles should use zero padding for TX ids. - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From David Gould
Subject Re: BUG #13620: Streaming replication process titles should use zero padding for TX ids.
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Msg-id 20150915154720.73ab0f15@engels
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In response to Re: BUG #13620: Streaming replication process titles should use zero padding for TX ids.  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:40:02 -0300
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> Michael Paquier wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:27 PM, J=C3=BCrgen Strobel wrote:
> > > I understand this is not a bug in the sense that it displays wrong
> > > information, nor that I cannot get the information in a different way.
> > > The problem is that the proctitle functionality, which is very
> > > convenient and much faster than typing the SELECT above, is diminished
> > > by easily misleading people when it displays this id in hex encoding
> > > without zero padding.
> >=20
> > Nothing prevents you to have a bash alias or a custom script doing
> > that.
>=20
> I agree with J=C3=BCrgen, we should zero-pad this.  This stuff is
> user-unfriendly enough without having to count chars or write shell
> functions.

+1

-dg=20

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David Gould                                   daveg@sonic.net
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