Re: Feature improvement: can we add queryId for pg_catalog.pg_stat_activity view? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:34:31PM +0800, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:31 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > Is there a measureable overhead when this is turned on, since it is off
> > > by default and maybe should default to on.
> >
> > I don't believe that "default to on" can even be in the discussion.
> > There is no in-core feature that would use this by default.
> 
> If the 2nd patch is applied there would be pg_stat_activity.queryid
> column, but I doubt that's a strong enough argument.

There is that, and log_line_prefix, which I can imaging being useful. 
My point is that if the queryid is visible, there should be a reason it
defaults to show empty.

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