On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 19:04, Peter Eisentraut<peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 August 2009 17:33:40 Tom Lane wrote:
>> I don't think there'd be much logical difficulty in having an output
>> field (ie, CSV column or log_line_prefix escape) that represents a
>> classification of the PID, say as "postmaster, backend, AV worker,
>> AV launcher, bgwriter, ...". It would only require changing things
>> in one place, whereas your original proposal seemed mighty open-ended.
>
> You might be able to achieve that if you use the %q escape and put something
> after the %q that you can search for.
You could do part of it, but you could still not differ them from each
other. And really, it seems very much like a kludge to me. I'd rather
have a "proper field" for it.
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