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Re: [PATCH] pg_stat_activity: make slow/hanging authentication more visible - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jacob Champion
Subject Re: [PATCH] pg_stat_activity: make slow/hanging authentication more visible
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In response to Re: [PATCH] pg_stat_activity: make slow/hanging authentication more visible  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> FWIW, I continue to think that this is a misuse of wait events. We shouldn't
> use them as a poor man's general purpose tracing framework.

Well, okay. That's frustrating.

If I return to the original design, but replace all of the high-level
wait events with calls to pgstat_report_activity(), does that work?

--Jacob

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