Tom Lane writes:
> Christof Petig <christof.petig@wtal.de> writes:
> > I would even propose 'idle (transaction open)' if you agree. (Seemed too
> > long for me)
>
> No, the ps strings have got to be *short*. A lot of platforms have a
> tight limit on how much command string ps will show. I thought 'trans'
> was OK, though perhaps someone has an even better idea?
Since nothing follows the status indicator in the ps display you can
really make it as long as you want; the rest will be truncated. So you
might want to put it "transaction (idle)", so that the essential
information is first.
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