Re: Why does pg_stat_activity Truncate Queries? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> I was just noticing that pg_stat_activity is truncating queries which are 
> logged to it at about 150 chars.

256, I would expect.

> I can't think of any good reason for this.

There is good reason to limit the packet size, but to a kilobyte or so.
Feel free to bump up PGSTAT_ACTIVITY_SIZE to 1000 or so in
src/include/pgstat.h (and yes, this is already done for 8.0).
        regards, tom lane