On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> The column name of pg_stat_replication.backend_start is confusing because
> it's not the time when *backend* was started at all. We should rename it to
> "walsender_start" or "replication_start"?
walsenders are backends, of course. I think that any clarity we'd get
from renaming this would be not worth the loss of backward
compatibility or the inconsistency with pg_stat_activity.
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Robert Haas
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