"Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> The other thought is that you're not going to have much use of this if
> you don't have pgstat anyway - how are you going to find out which
> backends actually exist?
ps, perhaps? Anyway I agree with Neil that it'd be better not to have a
dependency on code that may not be running, when there's no need.
regards, tom lane