Re: Addition of authenticated ID to pg_stat_activity - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Addition of authenticated ID to pg_stat_activity
Date
Msg-id 20210427182457.d5ptpl4kk5axvhyi@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Addition of authenticated ID to pg_stat_activity  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: Addition of authenticated ID to pg_stat_activity  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Hi,

On 2021-04-27 12:40:29 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> So, what fields are people really looking at when querying
> pg_stat_activity interactively?  User, database, pid, last query,
> transaction start, query start, state, wait event info, maybe backend
> xmin/xid?  I doubt most people looking at pg_stat_activity interactively
> actually care about the non-user backends (autovacuum, et al).

Not representative, but I personally am about as often interested in one
of the non-connection processes as the connection
ones. E.g. investigating what is autovacuum's bottleneck, are
checkpointer / wal writer / bgwriter io bound or keeping up, etc.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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