Re: procpid? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: procpid?
Date
Msg-id 9653.1307636908@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to procpid?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Can someone explain why pg_stat_activity has a column named procpid and
> not simply pid?  'pid' is that pg_locks uses, and 'procpid' is redundant
> (proc-process-id).  A mistake?

Mistake or not, it's about half a dozen releases too late to change it.
        regards, tom lane


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