Re: Backend Stats Enhancement Request

Tom Lane wrote:
> Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org> writes:
>
> That's not where the problem is.  The people who will be left holding
> the short end of the stick are the ones who can't raise their SHMMAX
> setting past a couple of megabytes.
> 
> It might be feasible to make pg_stat_activity's max string length
> a postmaster-start-time configuration option.

That would seem to me to be the most prudent course. As much as it is 
important to pay attention to those "who can't raise their SHMMAX 
setting past a couple of megabutes", that is certainly not the majority 
of participants in this community.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake